In this guest column for the Madville Times, actual live Native American Tasiyagnunpa Livermont weighs in on Watertown's cultural misappropriation, football, war, and racism: Nobody likes to be told they are wrong. Let alone racist. I get it. You feel…
Posts tagged as “Watertown”
Oh, look—white kids dressed up in mock Indian garb: Not having had the pleasure of graduating from Watertown, Home of the Arrows, I can't speak to the rich local tradition behind the branding of homecoming week as a celebration of…
Friend of the blog Lanny Stricherz tells me that the Watertown Public Opinion was going to charge him $100 to print his letter to the editor, because it was a political letter. Apparently money really is speech... or, more accurately…
The City of Brookings has enacted the latest local texting ban in South Dakota. Ordinance 31-12 took effect last Monday, but Brookings police apparently needed a few more days of training before starting to enforce the texting ban on Friday.…
Rep. Kristi Noem continues to defy the conservative label. She continues to support big government subsidies for services that benefit her personally. Her latest favorite liberal spending: increased funding for rural airports that the free market cannot support: Tea party…
Hey, Watertown neighbors! Head to the Watertown Regional Library Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and help refer Governor Daugaard's destructive education "reform" bill to a public vote! Members of the Watertown Education Association—you know, real teachers, actual experts in how…
I attended the first formal public conversation on Madison's retail future, a meeting called by concerned citizen Ashley Kenneth Allen. A dozen of us gathered at the library to start figuring out why Madison's retail sector is in decline and…
Madison just gained a competitive advantage over Watertown. Voters in Watertown rejected a city ordinance that would have allowed mixed martial arts events within city limits. The nays beat the ayes in last night's vote 59% to 41%. Over the…