Concern for history and brand equity keeps the state Board on Geographic Names from replacing the name of a colonialist Indian killer William Hareny on South Dakota’s highest peak with a…
Tag: history
I’m with Mr. Kurtz, who rightly gripes about Gettysburg’s tone-deafness on their display of the traitor flag on their city police uniforms. So would be the writers…
A familiar headline comes across my desk: “Salary Dilemma Drives Teachers out of State.” According to the article, more than 46% of the newest annual crop of South…
Inspired by our success this week in putting two new laws to a public vote, Bob Mercer looks at the recent history of the referendum in…
I love Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. Right there, just a few blocks west of Hennepin Avenue, right south of one of the Twin Cities’ great…
As Mr. Kurtz noted last week, the South Dakota Board of Geographic Names has voted unanimously to recommend changing the name of Harney Peak to Hinhan Kaga. Actually,…
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…
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…