The news from Jackson County looks like a victory for Indian voting rights. After burning up lots of taxpayer dollars fighting a voting-rights lawsuit from its…
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Bob Mercer notices another task force producing lots of talk but little apparent action: There was enthusiasm to some degree when Rep. Don Haggar, R-Sioux Falls, received…
Since 2005, South Dakota has obtained millions of dollars in federal GEAR UP grants under the pretense of helping prepare American Indian youth for college. However, in a tradition going…
My reporter friends at the Aberdeen American News labor under strict prohibitions on political activity, like not being able to sign petitions. Yet their statewide political reporter (whom…
Senator John Thune and Representative Kristi Noem visited Pine Ridge last week and heard about the “spikes in suicide rates, including some children, and ongoing…
Bob Mercer notes that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs continues to distinguish herself from disgraced and feckless predecessor Jason Gant by promoting criteria for funding…
Murder-suicide, questionable finances, mishandling of federal funds, conflicts of interest, GOP cronyism—such are the words that have lit up our headlines the last couple weeks over the scandal…
Then again, sometimes talk at the local level isn’t enough to ensure fair treatment of American Indians. Last year, American Indian advocates reached a favorable settlement of the Wandering…