Back in town: Floyd Pickett, payday lending tool. KELO-TV spots Pickett at the Hampton Inn, with friends: Floyd Pickett, the protest leader in the middle of the controversy at…
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An online petition calls on Attorney General Marty Jackley to investigate Springfield police officer Douglas Magee for shooting a dog. In a two-page statement filed…
While hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists fill South Dakota jails, ERs, coffins, and tax coffers, the Satyagraha Institute is in the Black Hills for its first two-week…
Angela Kennecke is really getting into the payday lenders’ backfired scheme to infiltrate Josiah’s Coffeehouse and shake down South Dakota political activist Steve Hildebrand. After friends of Hildebrand and…
Don’t want a foreign company using eminent domain to take South Dakotans’ land and subject our crops, cattle, and aquifers to tar sands pollution? Then get…
South Dakota Veterans for Veterans failed to gather enough signatures to refer House Bill 1179—South Dakota’s new, expanded definition of “veteran”—to a public vote. Unable to submit…
Rick Weiland is serious about defending democracy from Big Money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcnxe8Agp-8 This stone-faced video, like the “Pledge” video that accompanied the public launch of Weiland’s…
Ken Santema reports on the Keystone XL protest held in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s visit to Watertown last week. He finds that the protesters, largely American…
The Public Utilities Commission just did opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline a favor. At the request of Dakota Rural Action and four South Dakota tribes (you know,…