Back in 2012, when Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed funding the Rushmore Connector Trail between the Mickelson Trail at Hill City and Mount Rushmore, I said it sounded like…
Posts tagged as “Black Hills”
At its April meeting, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names put off making a decision on changing the name of Harney Peak. The main alternative name under consideration…
Seth Tupper offers a powerful profile of Roy Jeffs, son of convicted child rapist and religious despot Warren Jeffs. Roy Jeffs lived—or should we say was held prisoner?—at…
Four tribes—the Shakopee Mdewankanton, Crow Creek, Rosebud, and Standing Rock—worked for three years to purchase Pe’ Sla, the sacred grassland in the middle of the…
A cranky minority of legislators hate bicyclists. We saw an outbreak of two-wheeler-whacking during last year’s successful effort to write into law the passing berth motorists must give bicyclists. Now…
Indian Country Media spotlights a May 2015 report from the Lakota People’s Law Project recounting the self-serving relationships and contracts, first revealed in Laura Sullivan’s landmark NPR report…
Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota is coming to South Dakota. No, he’s not setting up a kiosk at the Empire Mall to try to convince…
It should be another exciting day at the state Water Management Board meeting today in Pierre. At 1 p.m., the board again takes up the application from the fundamentalist (read “polygamist”)…
Where’s the fire? Let’s hope not in Spearfish any time soon: their fire department is disbanding! Let’s start with last week’s announcement from the Spearfish Volunteer Fire…
Sure, coming to the Democratic Buffalo Roundup Dinner and hearing from our next Congresswoman is nice. The shepherd’s pie at the Alex Johnson is pretty…