The City of Sioux Falls is resorting to chicanery to slow traffic on 15th Street: Chicanes are bump-outs at the side of the road intended…
Tag: journalism
When Governor Kristi Noem canned the Corrections Secretary and the State Penitentiary Warden last week in response to alarms raised by an anonymous letter about…
Lakota journalist and publisher and South Dakota Hall of Famer Tim Giago retired from the newspaper business ten years ago. Coming up on his 87th…
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…
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…