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Boke Stokes Division with Pokes at Nopes on Annexation

27% of registered voters in Spearfish and Spearfish Valley showed up at the polls yesterday to reject the city's proposed annexation of some of the nicest not-quite urban, not-quite rural agricultural land in South Dakota. On a 54.6%-to-45.4% split, referendum…

Johnson, Boke Help Interior Find Short-Term Funds for Booth Hatchery

Tim Johnson gets stuff done! South Dakota's senior Senator questioned Deputy Secretary of the Interior nominee Mike Connor Tuesday on the D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has short-sightedly threatened to close. Evidently a little…

Boke to Rule Spearfish; Apa Takes Lead

That final push worked! Dana Boke unseats 13-year incumbent Jerry Krambeck as Spearfish mayor. Here are results from the Black Hills Pioneeer Facebook feed: City of Spearfish - Mayor Dana Boke wins with 899 votes [53%] Jerry Krambeck received 790…

Anonymous Anti-Boke Ad Legal But Cowardly

I've given Spearfish mayoral candidate Dana Boke heck for not naming names (or any other specifics that would justify her contention that she could run Spearfish better than the oligarchy she sees in charge). I must thus criticize some supporters…

Blizzard Postpones Spearfish Election; Break for Boke?

The snow has me trading the classroom for the blog and the shovel today. The snow also has postponed the Spearfish, Lead, and Deadwood elections for one week. Spearfish mayoral candidate Dana Boke thus has one more week to work…

Spearfish Oligarchy Needs Stronger Challenger Than Boke

Spearfish holds its city election Tuesday. My neighbors have two choices for mayor: three more years of Mayor Jerry Krambeck, who has held the position since 2000, or political newcomer Dana Boke, who says Krambeck runs an oligarchy that she…