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With the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight, the closest to the final bell since 1953, when the Soviets lit their first fusion-based bomb‚…
The League of Women Voters hosted a forum on redistricting last night here in Aberdeen. Along with a detailed speech from NSU political geographer Dr.…
With one month before the statewide election, that Sioux Falls paper is reducing citizens’ opportunity to offer timely content in the state’s largest newspaper: While…
The Secretary of State has posted another potential initiative for the 2020 ballot—my initiative on initiative and referendum! Technically, we should call an initiative about…
LEAD South Dakota continues to organize and provide the public with opportunities to engage with state-level politics. On Saturday, August 25, they’re coming to Aberdeen…
Rapid City lawyer and writer David Ganje wryly imagines a conversation between himself and state government to depict Pierre’s arrogant resistance to public participation in state…
Bob Mercer reports that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources is inviting public input on how to spend South Dakota’s $8,125,000 share of the $16.1 billion…
This could be interesting: a new progressive (opposition? resistance?) group is coalescing in Aberdeen. The Brown County Progressives for Change popped up on Facebook a…