Opponents and proponents of stricter feedlot regulations in Bon Homme County are forming a volunteer group to see if they can help the county commission strike the right balance between…
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Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether just increased his stock at Dakota Free Press (and hey—given how little stock he has with me, any increase is significant). Evidently…
Madison is maxed out on tax increment finance districts, so it had to get the county to back the latest TIF district project, a plan…
Facts and good sense managed to beat back the one ugly outburst of anti-refugee paranoia that cropped up in this year’s Legislative Session. Now I’m proud…
American Indian activist James Cadwell submits this essay on the decline of white Chamberlain and that border town’s opportunity to recover by embracing its only growing…
Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Deutsch) insists that, if he wins reëlection to the House, he’ll bring some new and improved form of his paranoid potty bill, the anti-transgender…
Among the five vetoes Governor Dennis Daugaard issued yesterday was one seemingly admirable rebuff to corporate welfare. The Governor said no to Senate Bill 100, a measure…
Pipestone Holdings, the same folks who think it’s harassment to say that their pig poop near Mount Vernon stinks, wants to build a 9,000-hog concentrated animal feeding operation near…
I wasn’t just dreaming. Consistent with things his administration made when it rolled out the silly “We’re Not Mars” campaign, Governor Dennis Daugaard told the Pierre Chamber of…
Meanwhile, in local corporate welfare news, my city council is formalizing some handouts to big corporations. Ordinance 16-01-03 received a favorable first reading last night, with the six…