Dean Kurtz of Custer sends a fine letter to the editor of the Hot Springs Star criticizing Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage. He tells his neighbors that signing…
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In the Tea Leaves Department, Attorney General Marty Jackley may have given a hint of a ballot initiative coming to the petition trail at a Deadwood forum last…
Kids just can’t catch a break on the prairie. Nebraska is currently considering a youth minimum wage that almost exactly parallels the kid-exploiting, voter-disrespecting Senate Bill 177 passed…
Instead of choosing to bully the South Dakota High School Activities Association, the organization that makes possible all those state tournaments everyone loves to attend and…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has replaced one flood-plain country-club Republican with another in the District 16 Senate seat vacated by bail bondsman Dan Lederman. The Governor will appoint Dakota Dunes…
The South Dakota Legislature’s Executive Board made one intelligent decision and one petty, spiteful, unproductive decision yesterday in Pierre. On the intelligent side, out of nineteen summer…
The lesson this spring: don’t pass legislation that torques off folks in Aberdeen. A group calling itself South Dakota Veterans for Veterans has filed the papers necessary…
Senator Corey Brown (R-23/Gettysburg) wants to be Senate Majority Leader. Senator Corey Brown… hmm… isn’t that the guy who… fears democracy so much that he…
Why go to Mars when you can teach music in Groton? School superintendents Joe Schwan of Groton and Michael Kroll of Warner take to the Aberdeen…
Decent citizens beat back the bullying and harassment some of our regressive legislators and lobbyists dished out to transgender students during the 2015 Session. But some…