Your tax dollars are hard at work defending Jackson County’s dogged desire to keep it hard for Indians to vote. Even though the West River county has Judge Karen Schreier and…
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Labor Secretary Marcia Hultman told the Legislative Planning Committee yesterday that her department is working with the Department of Education and the Board of Regents to publish information online about job…
Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender took office on Monday. On Friday, his successor in the police department, Chief Karl Jegeris, announced that he is hiring Lakota speaker and student-activist Vaughn Vargas…
Not everything went well in Pierre yesterday. Across the street from the Capitol, the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names went back on its earlier support for removing…
The South Dakota Board on Geographic Names meets at 1:30 p.m. CDT today at the DOT commission room at 700 E. Broadway Avenue. The big item on…
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has signed a five-year contract with Denver-based Monarch America to help the tribe grow marijuana. The tribe will sell pot for recreational…
The latest Dakota Free Press poll finds strong but far from unanimous support for changing the name of South Dakota’s tallest peak. Out of 156 votes cast…
An eager reader notices that lacrosse players from the Sisseton Wahpeton community participated in the Twin Cities Native Lacrosse Tournament yesterday in Minneapolis. The Star-Tribune tells us…
South Dakotans have just three days left to submit comment on the proposal to change the name of Harney Peak to Hinhan Kaga, the Lakota name…
Several days ago, I read the wonderfully ironic Rapid City Journal headline, “Thousands of Hippies May Invade Black Hills for Gathering This Summer.” The local…