Aberdeen’s school board candidates were less shy about speaking with Dakota Free Press than our city council candidates. While only three in ten city candidates agreed to podcast interviews,…
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Hot off the Mac—the latest Dakota Free Press Podcast! In lucky Episode #13, conservative blogger Ken Santema sits down with this liberal podcast to talk…
Marketplace this morning mentioned a new report from the Urban Institute on education funding. The report says that South Dakota does a poor job of getting more…
Turn to page 34 of Donald Trump’s budget and you will see that while Il Duce wants to spend $598 billion less on keeping Americans healthy,…
Renée Wise, Aaron Schultz, Ken Santema, and incumbent Brian Sharp are running for three available seats on the Aberdeen school board. So is incumbent Kevin…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem gets to celebrate her heartless, self-interested backing of Trumpcare with an eleven-day break, which I’m sure she will not use to hold town…
Whoo-hoo—the newest Dakota Free Press podcast heads to the farm to interview school board member Brian Sharp, who is running for reëlection. Sharp is the only active…
Among the do-nothing puffery from the White House this week is Donald Trump’s executive order telling Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to review education policies and…
The Borg write a letter to the editor in my morning paper, declaring that “Immigrants Must Assimilate.” Actually, the writer is Aberdeen retiree Gary Famias,…
USA Today features a Boston Consulting Group report on America’s waning lead in industrial innovation. We’re still investing in and churning out more basic and applied research…