If Democratic Senator Billie Sutton has any trouble connecting with young urban voters, perhaps he can remind them of what Tom Lawrence observes—Sutton would be South…
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The Gettysburg Police Department continues to display the white-supremacist Confederate flag on their uniform patch and Facebook page. We’ve hashed out the racist intent disguised…
The other day I noticed that Holabird political expert Nick Nemec claimed on Facebook that “contrary to recent reports,” he actually coined the term “priming the pump.” I didn’t…
Aberdeen history professors let us down in today’s paper. First, Presentation College history prof Brad Tennant says the six swastikas painted around Aberdeen last week are just…
Если бы я был Владимиром Путиным… If I were Vladimir Putin, what would I like to get for Christmas? An attractive Russian woman beguiling a bunch of…
Dakota Marketing Coalition, National Farmers Organization, and South Dakota Farmers Union brought a couple of speakers to Aberdeen Monday evening to talk about the chronically…
…and other historical notes! Senate Joint Resolution 2, Senator Jim Bolin’s proposal to make it harder for us to amend our state constitution, survived a bumpy…
As the South Dakota Legislature collapses into the ethical chaos of a sex scandal, Republican leaders are fast-tracking the first bill in their attack voters’ right to legislate.…
On the weekend of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, President-Elect Donald Trump responds to criticism from King ally and Congressman John Lewis by saying his district, metro Atlanta,…