One thing Attorney General Mark Vargo isn’t changing about South Dakota government is its inability to separate church and state. In announcing the impending hire…
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The proposed Hillsdale curriculum standards for South Dakota’s K-12 social studies classes don’t just violate good pedagogical practice; they also violate the law. Standard K.SS.1.N…
Russia requires outside religious groups to register with the government. Now so does the Oglala Sioux Tribe, although it has backed away from a more…
Last night’s peaceful Phillips Avenue march protesting the Alito Court’s overturning of women’s freedom was no riot. That was clear to anyone watching the event,…
Stel Kline, formerly of South Dakota Public Broadcasting, finds this news on Twitter, courtesy of Watertown motorcycle aficionado Lee Bruns, of a Watertown High School…
Governor Kristi Noem just cost South Dakota taxpayers another $32,741.21 by tromping on the First Amendment. On Monday, federal Judge Roberto Lange ordered the Noem…
Rapid City attorney Jim Leach had to spend his St. Patrick’s Day in St. Paul, Minnesota, defending South Dakotans’ right to circulate ballot question petitions…
Reed Holwegner really doesn’t like communicating with the public. The director of the Legislative Research Council unnecessarily withheld the Ravnsborg investigation file last fall, participated in…
Eighteen months ago, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg broke the law and killed a man. Over a year ago, state law enforcement declared they had no confidence…