Stu Whitney earns his pay for the week with his lengthy profile of alpha barista and payday-lender fighter Steve Hildebrand. Whitney reports that the intense fight for…
Tag: democracy
Speaking of income inequality (thank you, Senator Sanders!), Governing offers this clickable map showing that economic growth has outpaced median income growth in every state: From 2000 to…
Back in town: Floyd Pickett, payday lending tool. KELO-TV spots Pickett at the Hampton Inn, with friends: Floyd Pickett, the protest leader in the middle of the controversy at…
Double Disclosure: The Sioux Falls Democratic Forum pays me to advertise their Friday meetings in the sidebar, and Farmers Union is paying me to circulate their petition… but…
Here’s the text of a letter to my Aberdeen neighbors that I’m hoping the Aberdeen paper will publish: From April through June, you saw me with…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs called me a few minutes ago to inform me that Senate Bill 69 will now be known as Referred Law 19. Yes, that…
The Aberdeen American News goes out on two limbs this week. The Hub City’s editorial board tells Aberdeen voters they have “failed” in producing a dismal…
Turnout in local elections suggests democracy is losing to apathy: Rapid City school election: 33.6% [Update 12:25 CDT: Pennington County election supervisor Lori Severson tells me there…
I stopped by the Brown County Courthouse a couple hours ago and voted in today’s Aberdeen Central school board election. I was voter #337 in the community. Mayor…
Why bother driving to Pierre for the Bosworth trial? You already know what the prosecution will say, what the defense will offer as distractions, and…