Dan Rather and his grandson Martin took a monumental drive from Texas to the Black Hills. Yesterday they visited Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse…
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All hail Kevin Woster and South Dakota Public Broadcasting for their defense of long-form blogging! Woster cranks out over 2,600 words of the most thorough…
The SDGOP spin blog really overworked itself trying to portray local reporting on the advantage Republicans derive from gerrymandering as “fake news.” Three consecutive posts…
Four years ago when BPI filed suit against ABC for calling its processed bovine leavings the accurately descriptive term “pink slime,” the big food corporations could get area governors to shove their…
When I first heard the news about Montana’s Republican candidate for U.S. House, Greg Gianforte, assaulting U.K. Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in his campaign office, I…
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…
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…