Two months after executive director Suzanne Jones Pranger jumped ship to work for fellow Burke native Senator Billie Sutton’s campaign for governor, the South Dakota…
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The Government Accountability Task Force, which was created by Senate Bill 171 to study campaign finance and held its first meeting yesterday, shares the Secretary…
Last April, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) said he wants the new Board of Technical Education to advocate for $9 million in new state…
The latest Dakota Free Press Podcast is ready for your earbuds! In Episode #15, we talk to Pierre political activist Roxanne Weber, organizer of protests,…
Anyone wishing to shift any grief over the Legislature’s stopgap action on nonmeandered waters to the Department of Game Fish & Parks should note GF&P’s…
The nonmeandered waters legislation passed in yesterday’s special session of the Legislature is so bad— —how bad is it?— —it’s so bad that the biggest…
The Department of Education provides this awesome chart plotting the English and math proficiency rates of every school—not just school district, but school building—that had…
The South Dakota Legislature meets in special session today in Pierre to deal with the issue of nonmeandered waters, the lakes over private lands that…
University of Minnesota political scientist Eric Ostermeier casts an occasional pessimistic glance at South Dakota Democrats (and so far, we haven’t done much to defy his…
The Governor’s office announced yesterday that the Government Finance Officers Association has recognized our state government with a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial…