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…
Tag: American Indians
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…
While our Governor waits for someone else to pay for Medicaid expansion and lets a useful social service program die, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shows us how…
In 2013, 147 people committed suicide in South Dakota. Since December 2014, 19 young people have committed suicide just on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Administration for Native…
A couple of years ago, South Dakota’s worst Secretary of State ever, Jason Gant, resorted to the devious trick of appealing to the understaffed Election Advisory…
After forgoing two years worth of health benefits and economic stimulus for South Dakota, Governor Dennis Daugaard may finally be surrendering the permanence and logic of the Affordable Care…
This morning I jumped on KOTA’s report that Education Secretary Melody Schopp had fired the GEAR UP staff. Bob Mercer then reported that gubernatorial chief of staff Tony…
The commentariat went ape last fall when I said Watertown should stop dressing up its kids as Indians for homecoming. Now Stu Whitney can catch heck from…
The Pennington County Democratic Party is taking a stand for indigenous rights over colonialism. In a resolution passed at their Tuesday meeting, the Pennington County…