Sibby, save us! Mitchell school superintendent Joe Graves wants to run for Legislature: Monday during the Mitchell Board of Education meeting at Gertie Belle Rogers Elementary, Graves, the school district superintendent, announced his plan to run for the South Dakota…
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It takes a special kind of parent and a special kind of Christian to want to send a child to a school where the teachers carry firearms. Christian parents may get the chance to show how (.38) special they are…
Mitchell Superintendent Joe Graves usually flacks for whatever the state wants. But at last night's Mitchell school board meeting, he threw arch-conservative opponents of the dreaded Common Core standards a bone: During the meeting’s public commentary segment, Mitchell resident Steve…
"What makes you think you're so smart?" 15,000-some South Dakotans can now straight-facedly answer that question by saying, "Well, we're from Mitchell." On Sunday, the Intelligent Community Forum named Mitchell one of the "Smart21" nominees for the honor of 2013…
Dennis, what did you say to those guys? It is likely unfair to blame Governor Dennis Daugaard for the decision of Verifications Inc. to pull out of Mitchell and Aberdeen and kill 140 jobs created with public subsidy. But the…
Verifications Inc. surprised 140 of its South Dakota employees yesterday by telling them they will lose their jobs by November: According to Verifications employee Becky Jacobson, employees in Mitchell were asked to attend a mandatory meeting Thursday, at which they…
The Mitchell Daily Republic's Tom Lawrence provides some sharp observations from last week's Davison-Hanson County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner that anti-Establishment candidates may find instructive. The Davison-Hanson County GOP includes two of the biggest anti-Establishment candidates in the state: Rep.…