I give Attorney General Marty Jackley a hard time about his qualifications, but he doesn't so much as snark at me by name, never mind sic his investigators on me. Ann-erika White Bird is not as lucky. The Lakota Voice…
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Some trivia from the South Dakota Board of Regents placement outcomes report: 1. The racial group with the highest rate of placement in jobs or ongoing education in South Dakota: American Indians. Compare cautiously a sample of 82 Indians with…
Among the victims of the multiple shooting in Sisseton Saturday was Vernon Renville, Jr., also known as Vernon Redday. Lake Traverse Reservation newspaper Sota Iya Ye Yapi reports that Renville advocated for LGBT rights in Indian Country: Vernon was a…
The Nee York Times turns some socioeconomic statistics into a map of the quality of life in every county in the United States. Looking at "education (percentage of residents with at least a bachelor’s degree), median household income, unemployment rate,…
Hmm... did Annette Bosworth get a job writing fundraising letters for St. Joseph Indian School? Dr. Bosworth is now marketing example #1 that Base Connect uses to tout its political fundraising potential. On a webpage titled "Nuts & Bolts" (you…
While the next executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party tells me that Democrats need to embrace God and guns, pollster Paul Nielson tells Todd Epp that we Democrats lost the Catholic vote this time out: “If you’re evangelical…
Rep. Kristi Noem and the U.S. House approve Keystone XL? Them's fightin' words, says the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Literally: “The House has now signed our death warrants and the death warrants of our children and grandchildren. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe…
Rep. Kevin Killer is fighting for re-election in District 27. He's leading the mighty get-out-the-vote charge on the Pine Ridge Reservation that could tip the balance in the U.S. Senate race. And on top of that, he's proposing a big…