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Posts tagged as “youth”

Millennials Fine with Active Government; Can We Get Them to Vote?

The Republican candidates for South Dakota's U.S. Senate seat debated on South Dakota Public TV last night. Click on SDPB 's archived video, and you can watch Stace Nelson, Mike Rounds, Larry Rhoden, and Jason Ravnsborg all spending 90 minutes…

Hausman to Dems: Campaign for Youth on Student Debt, Gay Rights…

...and do it with apps! Cody Hausman spoke to the Sioux Falls Democratic Forum last Friday on behalf of his generation. The son of Brandon City Councilwoman and 2012 District 9 House candidate Jo Hausman discussed how Democrats (and any…

New Dakota Poll: No Liberal Surge Among South Dakota Youth

Alas, South Dakota's youngest voting generation knows who can butter its political bread. Amid reports that the national youth vote is leaning strongly liberal/progressive/Democrat, Sam Hurst publishes a new Dakota Poll that finds our young voters offering Jensenesque regressivism safe…

Troubled For-Profit Youth Prison Company Closes Chamberlain Academy

Jessica Giard reports that Florida-based Youth Services International is closing the Chamberlain Academy, a youth detention and treatment facility in Chamberlain. This private facility, licensed by the state Department of Social Services, has housed an average of 22 juveniles over…

Crago Counters Newquist Pessimism: We Can Make South Dakota Better

David Newquist is provoking all sorts of good discussion with his diagnosis of South Dakota as hopeless for young progressives. Heidi Marttila-Losure of Dakota Fire has weighed in with her optimism. Now Zach Crago, deputy exec of the South Dakota…