Representative Peri Pourier’s (R-27/Pine Ridge) announcement of her switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party was strangely unspecific to the state of politics…
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A week ago, religious extremists lit the fuse of a new war in the Middle East by launching unconscionable terrorist (that’s redundant) attacks on Israelis…
Speaking at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute’s candidate recruitment event in Sioux Falls Saturday, Brookings city councilman and deputy mayor Nick Wendell provided evidence that smart…
Right-wing radicals are trying to whip up hysteria about Satanists so they can avoid any substantive policy discussion and just wage jihad. But, as usual, the right-wing…
Kelly Hertz of the Yankton Press and Dakotan wonders why South Dakota’s elected officials don’t translate their “sunny talk” about our “robust economy” into real investments…
American federalism stinks, says University of Washington political scientist Jacob Grumbach. In his book Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, Grumbach says shifting…
Today is the last day to submit public comment on the proposed Michigan/Hillsdale standards for South Dakota’s K-12 social studies curriculum for consideration at Monday’s…
A Twitter friend notes that Kansas voters exhibit the same schizophrenia at the ballot box as South Dakota voters. They’ll vote liberal on some ballot…
Tim Gebhart opened his blog A Progressive on the Prairie with this post titled “Dubya and Crew Did It” on September 9, 2003: They woke…
Thanks to the South Dakota Senate’s historic and just vote yesterday to convict, remove, and forever disqualify Jason Ravnsborg, the office of Attorney General is…