Mark Miller – Dakota Free Press

More Than Bullying: Governor’s Office Casts Transgender Americans as Terrorists

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2022-01-26

House State Affairs approved Senate Bill 46 today on an 11–2 vote. SB 46 is Governor Kristi Noem’s unconstitutional bill seeking to distract us from…

Noem Loses Fourth Chief of Staff

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2021-11-19

Maybe Team Noem’s remediation plan is another staff shake-up. Or maybe Kristi Noem just can’t stand having a smart South Dakotan as her chief of…

Noem Picking Outside Politicos over South Dakota Public Servants

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2020-10-15

The consolation prize young Republicans are supposed to get for selling their souls to South Dakota’s corrupt one-party regime is lots of juicy patronage jobs.…

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Blog Roll: SD Mostly Political

SoDak Governors
Kristi Noem sworn in for second term: Governor Kristi Noem took her oath of office today, officially beginning her second term as South Dakota’s 33rd governor and … More…

2023.01.07

Bluestem Prairie
News digest: South Dakota and Minnesota PUCs deal with Summit carbon pipeline issues: Plans for parts of South Dakota and Minnesota projects in one network of ethanol carbon pipelines in were on the agenda this past week for the Public Utilities Commissions in both states. South Dakota…

2023.01.07

The South Dakota Standard
S.D.'s GOP Representative Dusty Johnson gains influence in Congress. Is he interested in the House’s top job someday?: Dusty Johnson, powerbroker?South Dakota’s lone U.S. House of Representatives member has elevated his national profile this week as Republicans engaged in an embarrassing family feud. Johnson, who will…

2023.01.07

South DaCola
Is the City of Sioux Falls violating ordinance when plowing streets?: It doesn’t fail, when you run a city blog as long as I have, whenever it snows I hear about the removal. I have come to the realization that most people are being nit-picky, but the latest blowback is…

2023.01.07

Bluestem Prairie
Action 4 Liberty's senator calls COVID-19 vaccines a ‘death shot’ at Capitol rally: Update January 7: I recommend Jennifer Brook's fine and sassy column at the Star Tribune about the rally, Brooks: Antivaxxers try out some new losing election slogans at State Capitol. [end updat…

2023.01.07

South DaCola
Augustana closes interfaith room for food storage: Augustana can do what they want to. They are a private college. But in light of the recent crying over drag shows at SDSU and long hair at O’Gorman you kind of wonder what the true motivation is behin…

2023.01.06

The South Dakota Standard
S.D.'s economy needs a boost. Medicaid expansion is a good place to start. The voters want it. It’s up to our reps to get it done.: After scanning the first three quarters of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data and coming to the conclusion that South Dakota’s economy is among the worst in the nation in terms of GDP growth, our elec…

2023.01.06

South Dakota News Watch
Critics say South Dakota governor and Legislature falling short in preventing spread of invasive zebra mussels: The confirmed finding last summer of zebra mussels in Pactola Reservoir – 15 miles west of Rapid City in the Black Hills National Forest – has sparked greater scrutiny of... The post Critics say South…

2023.01.04

Bonny's Blog
January 4, 2023: COVID Weekly Data Update: Variants XBB.1.5 is the variant that many public health officials are monitoring. The CDC estimates the XBB.1.5 variant currently represents 41% of the COVID cases in the U.S. (see below; link). It…

2023.01.04

SoDak Governors
South Dakota History in 2022: As the year comes to a close, we think back on the year that was. We saw new arrivals and … More…

2022.12.31

Blog Roll: Greater SD Blogosphere

SleuthSayers
Crime Scene Comix Case 2023-01-020, Red Bull: Once again we highlight our criminally favorite cartoonist, Future Thought channel of YouTube. We love the sausage-shaped Shifty, a Minion gone bad. Yikes! In this episode, Shifty goes to the dogs. ©…

2023.01.08

Idle Hands Dep't
A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass (No Train, No More subsection): Jr Williams picks up a guitar instead of his banjo and leads from his album Railroad Town,with Town Without a Train. So many small towns have all but disappeared from the landscape owing to the declin…

2023.01.08

605 Speaks
Lection Every 2nd Sunday: Book Reading and Discussion event at Full Circle Book CoOp 1:00 p.m. Bring whatever you’ve been reading most recently and share!…

2023.01.07

SleuthSayers
Crime Scene Comix Case 2023-01-019, Red Card: Leigh here with a sexist rant: I like watching US women’s soccer. Why? The players are exuberant and serious. When a men’s player (pick a country, any country) stubs a toe over an imaginary slight, he…

2023.01.07

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #550: 1978: Over the last couple of weeks, I've been hinting that I'll be starting 2023 with a big announcement. Well, tonight's the night!In my eyes, “Teenage Kicks” is a perfect pop song; the gre…

2023.01.07

Native Hope Blog
January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month: January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, created to raise awareness of sex slavery and human trafficking worldwide. Trafficking is a critical problem that all of us at Native Hope are passionate…

2023.01.06

Idle Hands Dep't
Picture worth a thousand words Div (MAGA subsection): ... and it arrives two years early.…

2023.01.05

The Poetry of Barry G. Wick
Illusion: IllusionFather makes a funny face.Mother wears the best clothing.Other children are friends.The piano teacher compliments.A recital audience applauds.Young men become attractive.A magazine tells their…

2023.01.04

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #549: New Releases: I'm sure plenty of veteran Ledge listeners are confused right now. A new release episode at the end of the month? Aren't those shows scheduled for the first Friday of the month? What's…

2022.12.31

LivingNonviolence
Life and Loss: It was like magic! I had just sat down at my desk to write my weekly column about “loss.” That subject choice was the result of a conversation last evening with friends, when we enjoyed extended endo…

2022.12.30

Posts tagged as “Mark Miller”

More Than Bullying: Governor’s Office Casts Transgender Americans as Terrorists

Noem Loses Fourth Chief of Staff

Noem Picking Outside Politicos over South Dakota Public Servants