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SD Republicans Open Attack on Minimum Wage Increase with HB 1094

Voters, the Republican campaign to overturn your will on the minimum wage has begin. Today, Representative Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) filed House Bill 1094, which would repeal one small provision of the minimum-wage increase that you wrote into law by passing…

Hobo Day Too Good for Pressler and Politicking?

I must now turn my fire on my alma mater, South Dakota State University, for political favoritism and restriction of free speech. Apparently they (and there's dispute as to whether "they" is the Hobo Day Committee or President David Chicoine…

SDSU Expects Students to Pay for Football Stadium They Won’t Use

The Board of Regents meets this week in Rapid City to discuss, among other things, approving a $65-million football stadium for South Dakota State University. According to the Regents' agenda packet, two thirds of the construction costs are for enclosed…

SDSU Extension Testing Woodchip Bioreactors to Reduce Nitrate Runoff

Most South Dakota counties and the Legislature hesitate to stand in the way of the total industrialization of the prairie with sensible drainage regulations. But if our leaders don't want to stand in the way of wetland extinction, perhaps they'll…

Schools Require Active Shooter Training: Quakers Need Not Apply?

The Black Hills Pioneer seems to run a new photo each week of hysteria in the Lead-Deadwood school district. We see teachers tackling mock gunmen in active shooter training. We see officers with weapons drawn stalking down the school hallways…

Chick-Fil-A and Gay Rights Cluelessness on Display in SDSU Senate

The South Dakota State University Students' Association voted Monday to cheer the university administration's decision to bring Chick-Fil-A to campus and make its oppressed homophobic minority feel more included. The student senators then voted against a resolution criticizing dishonest anti-gay…