The South Dakota Newspaper Association thinks Senator Corey Brown (R-23/Gettysburg) deserves an award for open-government advocacy. “Defender of the public“—really, Bob? Senator Brown tries to make it…
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Who would call an opportunity to practice democracy and hold a meaningful Presidential primary in South Dakota an unwelcome mess? Why, only that Sioux Falls paper’s star…
Columnist Jim Kent and the Rapid City Journal editorial board have butted heads for the last time. On March 10, RCJ booted Kent from its pages after a…
Check it out—a 100% Lakota website! Woihanble—translated: “Dream”—translates articles from the Lakota Country Times and produces some of its own original content. Site creators Matthew Rama and…
Proving that its content is Lucky Charms and not eggs and sausage, USA Today chooses to feature South Dakota’s biggest non-story of the week, the alleged misrepresentation of…
KELO-TV reports that store owners face a “learning curve” in implementing the half-penny increase in the state sales tax coming June 1: “I don’t know how that’s…
I am officially reaching the old-man stage. When I turn on pop radio, the new “songs” they play to get kids to buy stuff sound like angry,…
On Wednesday, I challenged Lisa Furlong’s (or should we just call it Rod Aycox’s now, since his Georgia-based company provided all of the $1.7 million necessary to…
I give Art Marmorstein a hard time for his column on race, and he still invites me to speak on campus! But he’s bringing muscle to…
That Sioux Falls paper’s new political reporter decided to write a Sunday piece about the South Dakota Democratic Party. Dana Ferguson’s report included the following statements:…