America’s historians say the Michigan/Hillsdale standards Governor Kristi Noem is pushing on South Dakota would “be a disservice both to students and to the state…
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Tony Venhuizen, who himself served a Snow Queen, notes the death of Queen Elizabeth II with a comparison of three big South Dakota newspapers’ front-page…
While I struggle with the Alito Court’s convenient professions of originalism, I respond with aghastery to the Constitution-wreckers like Senator Maggie Sutton who want to call…
Cully Williams digs through Session Laws and sketches South Dakota Legislative districts throughout history. Williams’s maps show everything from the first legislative map of 1889,…
Environmental watchdog Donald Pay played a key role in fighting Governor Bill Janklow’s effort to build a nuclear waste dump at the southern edge of…
Oh, hey, I found some of those “divisive concepts” Governor Noem now won’t tell us about! The South Dakota Historical Society Press today announced the…
Kitty Werthmann is dead. I wish she weren’t. The Schlaflyite South Dakota Eagle Forum leader spent her life leveraging her story of growing up in…
How unpopular was Amendment C, the proposal to require a 60% supermajority for voters to enact initiatives or referred laws that raise taxes or spend…