I don’t trust advertisers any further than I can kick them (and I’m not Adam Vinatieri). Nonetheless, I turn to the South Dakota Advertising Federation,…
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South Dakota still isn’t meeting its target teacher salary. In 2016, we raised our state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% with the goal of…
If you had any doubts about the value of South Dakota News Watch’s effort to provide independent long-form journalism, those doubts should disappear before these…
Randy Seiler is willing to run the South Dakota Democratic Party, for now, and he has a team lined up to help. In the last…
South Dakota News Watch reports on the challenges rural school districts face in adequately educating their dwindling youth populations. Nutshell: decreased funding, teacher turnover, students…
Columnist Dave Baumeister went to lunch with Democrats Friday and heard a good speech by Bernie Hunhoff on the difference between conservatives and liberals. Here’s…
If the Legislature is serious about micromanaging the Department of Education to produce better learning outcomes, perhaps they’ll follow Italy’s lead and require our public…
Just as it loses one fight for discrimination, the Trump Administration invites another. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a rule…
The Democratic Party’s share of South Dakota’s electorate continues to decline, while the independent sector grows and Republicans hold steady. According to the Secretary of…
Who needs cage-fighting when you can attend, for free, the biggest, bloodiest brawl in South Dakota: the third big meeting of the Electric Services in…