John Tsitrian celebrates Black Elk Peak as a better name for South Dakota’s highest point than its prior colonialist name, Harney Peak. He looks the Governor’s projected…
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I’m of the impression that any Aberdonian over the age of 20 recognizes this as a restoration of past glory: Scotty’s is back… with all…
After spending the evening with a lot of angry white Aberdonians afraid that The Brown Man is coming to take their land (and listening to…
South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s Dakota Midday is hosting a discussion of the decline of the South Dakota Democratic Party since the Kneip/McGovern years. Host Lori Walsh will interview Jon…
My morning paper tells me that the Alexander Mitchell Library Foundation is one fifth of the way toward its goal of raising $1.5 million toward…
Muhammad Ali died last night. The greatest 20th-century fighter, an athlete in a sport that most directly celebrates our lust for war, was a year and change younger…
Could the Daugaard Administration be seeing the light on a progressive tax system? Bob Mercer reports that Pat Costello, chief of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, told the…
A sure way to check the xenophobic impulses of the South Dakota Legislature would be for District 6 to elect Clara Hart to the House. Hart has…
Roy Steele blogs about LGBT civil rights from San Francisco under the banner Jive in the 415. Steele grew up in New Jersey, but he has roots…