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West River Radicals Deem Daugaard Pro-Gay Betrayer

Black Hills blogger Bob Ellis bleats that Governor Dennis Daugaard has betrayed the Republican Party by criticizing Senator Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City). To support this claim, Ellis points to a letter to the editor in which Glenn T. Freeman of…

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…

Bosworth Gets Bloody, Says Taking Care of America Not Her Responsibility

Pip pip, cheerio! Here's more wholesome nutty goodness from Republican Senate candidate Annette Bosworth, responding to Todd Epp's question about health care: We have a federal responsibility to take care of those who can't take care of themselves. We do…

Millions Not Really in Poverty Due to Government? You’re Welcome.

Michael Woodring reads a Forbes contributor and frets that we're misusing the word poverty. The Forbes contributor grumbles that it is inaccurate to say that 15% of Americans live in poverty: The 15% number is not the number living in…

Standardized Tests Drive Teacher to Resign; I Fight with Great French Tests

My potential allies at South Dakotans Against Common Core post this video by Chicago North Shore elementary school teacher Ellie Rubenstein. Amend that: former elementary school teacher Ellie Rubenstein. Mrs. Rubenstein posted her resignation to the Intertubes last week. She…

Krambeck Calls Boke “Snollygoster”

Tonight's mayor and council candidates' forum here in Spearfish was mostly what you'd expect from a local political event: mostly gentle questions, mostly general answers, mostly nice things said about Spearfish and Spearfish people. And then Mayor Jerry Krambeck called…