Bob Mercer has no new information on the sudden departure week before last of Timothy Downs from the presidency of Northern State University. But when…
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At another superspreader event here in Aberdeen yesterday, with no social distancing and few masks in sight, Governor Kristi Noem appeared to declare that she’s…
In a profound moment for South Dakota journalism in the 21st century, veteran Pierre reporter Bob Mercer quotes a source’s emoji: I don’t know if…
A story completely unrelated to transgender issues supports a grammatical argument I make against the use of the pronoun they to identify any individual, trans, cis…
Bob Mercer gently documents the Noem Administration’s continued stonewalling of South Dakota’s press. The veteran Pierre reporter asked the Governor’s office for comment on pushback…
One more pillar of locally owned media has fallen. Jon Hunter has sold the Madison Daily Leader to Arizona-based Wick Communications. Hunter, the third and last…
Some racist jerk threatens to rally “a critical mass of my fellow Whites” into “a squad of armed heroes” to shoot Rapid City Journal reporter…
Governor Kristi Noem doesn’t know what to do about Jason Ravsnborg’s maslaughter case, but she’s certainly ready to condemn and shun South Dakota journalists. KELO-TV…
Pramod Acharya of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting reads the CDC’s August report on the early coronavirus outbreak at Smithfield Foods and finds that…
After a closed-door, invitation-only meeting with Spearfish school officials and parents Monday, Governor Kristi Noem deigned to take questions from the local press. The Black…