Attorney General Marty Jackley is forcing journalist Dana Ferguson to testify in his prosecution of marijuana entrepreneur Eric Hagen, who goes to trial in Flandreau on…
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After three days of failing to offer any consistent explanation for firing FBI director James Comey, Donald Trump has figured out how to get his story together—offer…
At the beginning of last week, Bob Mercer’s doctors at the Mayo Clinic gave him a good bill of health. On Friday, the South Dakota…
Last year Donald Trump snidely suggested that “Second Amendment people” should take Hillary Clinton out. Now that Trump has assured the racist NRA that the imagined…
South Dakota’s senior state government reporter, Bob Mercer, came to Aberdeen Friday to receive the South Dakota Newspaper Association’s Distinguished Service Award. Mercer took time after…
In an undercard to the South Dakota Legislature’s sex scandal, KSFY took a stand for journalists’ First Amendment rights against the state. KSFY recorded an interview with a former intern…
Two weeks into the 2017 Session, my State Senator, Senator Al Novstrup, finally provides District 3 with his first update from Pierre. But wait: Novstrup’s letter isn’t really an…
Todd Epp predicts Donald Trump will be impeached “sometime during his first term.” (Alec Baldwin’s Saturday Night Live writers peg impeachment at two months.) The sooner this…
An eager commenter directs our attention to Harvard lecturer Yascha Mounk’s guide to resisting propaganda (a much better term than the unhelpful and oxymoronic “fake news”;…
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety and county and city police have stopped issuing information about traffic accidents, for fear that such disclosures may violate the new…