Governor Dennis Daugaard announced yesterday that he is appointing Madison High School graduate and former Sioux Falls police chief Doug Barthel to fill the District…
Tag: history
The C-SPAN Cities Tour has spotlighted the literary life and history of over 120 American Cities. Next week, the bi-monthly broadcast project finally comes to South…
Retired Sturgis history teacher Charles Rambow often speaks about the dark history of the Ku Klux Klan in the Black Hills. His master’s thesis on…
While covering the continuing corporate/computer co-optation of Dakota State University, that Sioux Falls paper proferred this historical nugget about Madison’s Regental campus: It wasn’t always…
Roger McKellips, the last Democrat to lead a majority in the South Dakota Senate, died this week at the age of 94. The former Alcester…
Looking for the proper response to the specious “what-aboutism” that Donald Trump is aping to defend statues to swiftly toppling traitorous Confederates? You don’t have to…
Amidst his rambling, resignation-worthy reversion to racist absurdity yesterday, Donald Trump ran interference for the neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other white-supremacists rallying futilely around Confederate monuments.…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian reads the responses of Congresswoman Kristi Noem and Senator John Thune (we still can find comment from Senator Mike Rounds in…
…But We South Dakotans Like Changing Our Constitution! Senator Jim Bolin wants to make it harder to amend the South Dakota Constitution. Last Session, Senator…
In trivial pursuits, SDGOP spin blogger Pat Powers decides to accuse “Dems” of historical amnesia by citing a statement by one Democrat, former state secretary…