Pennington County is receiving a $150,000 grant through the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge to develop a plan reduce its prison population. The county is one of…
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The Pennington County Democrats are hosting a public information session on the referendum drives against Senate Bill 69 (the Incumbent Protection Plan) and Senate Bill 177…
Former legislator and blog sponsor Stan Adelstein is urging his Rapid City neighbors to vote yes on the school opt-out on the June 2 ballot. Without the…
The Pfeifles must be buttering the right bread. In April, Governor Dennis Daugaard appointed Jane Wipf Pfeifle as a judge in the Seventh Circuit. She…
Gordon Howie criticizes billboards posted by “Healing Rapid City” around town to ease racial tensions and promote conversations. Howie’s photos show two of the billboards with the following…
The program for the public informational session on the petition drives to refer SB 69 and SB 177 just got more interesting: Joining the spectrum-spanning roster speaking…
Governing summarizes new Census data on city populations for 2014. Over the last four years, the Midwest has seen the second-slowest urban population growth of the…
Check out the current roster of speakers for the Pennington County Democratic Party‘s public information session on the petition drives to refer SB 69 and SB 177, and…
Rapid City businessman and blogger John Tsitrian is doing great work focusing on the practical policy side of his city’s mayoral contest between incumbent Sam Kooiker and…
Steve Allender started blogging in July 2011, when he was Rapid City’s police chief. He wrote straightforward, often pointed responses to issues like the October 2013 blizzard response and, after…