An eager reader sends me this Fresh Air interview with Kevin Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Kruse says…
Tag: history
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) dropped by the Dakota Free Press comment section yesterday to ask some reasonable questions about teacher pay, opt-outs, and South Dakota voters’…
Some of my teacher friends are tweeting from the Technology & Innovation in Education (TIE) conference in Rapid City. Yesterday conference attendee Sandy Arsenault tweeted Secretary of…
While we’re talking about ways to fight the poverty and despair that drive the high youth suicide rates on South Dakota’s Indian reservations, Mr. Kurtz notices that First…
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to shake hands and talk substantively with a Cuban leader since President Eisenhower met with…
I love Harney Peak. I’ve been to South Dakota’s highest point maybe a dozen times. Every time at the the top, with friends, with my eager…
In my conversations about referring Senate Bill 69 and/or Senate Bill 177, numerous South Dakota neighbors have expressed the concern that crowding the ballot with lots…
Speaking of initiatives, the cannabis advocates hoping to put two marijuana initiatives on the 2016 ballot should look up Governor Peter Norbeck. First South Dakota governor born in Dakota…