On Monday, the South Dakota Board of Education adopted new standards for teaching our kids about Native American history and culture. The Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and Standards bear the native name for the Seven Council Fires, the seven bands…
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I have a legal question: do the Alpha Center and the Black Hills Crisis Pregnancy Center have standing to intervene in Planned Parenthood's lawsuit against the State of South Dakota and its anti-abortion coercive counseling law? Attorney General Marty Jackley…
How can your inner megalomaniac not thrill to the news that you could buy an entire town for $799,000? 46 acres, including most of the buildings in beautiful Scenic, South Dakota, are for sale. The asking price is down from…
A number of folks have asked just what the heck I was doing in Washington, D.C. last week. Besides taking fun pictures for my little one, I was actually politicking. Dakota Rural Action sent me out to attend the White…
Recent public criticism of continued taxpayer handouts to the Lake Area Improvement Corporation appears to have provoked a reaction from our economic development chiefs. LAIC board member Mike McDowell takes to his Heartland Consumer Power District blog to point to…
Judge Karen Schreier did not use the word brainwashing in the injunction blocking 81% of South Dakota's atrocious anti-abortion coercive counseling law. New Jersey columnist Eliot Daley does: What American with an IQ above room temperature could ever imagine that…
Secretary of State Jason Gant announced this morning that he has certified the petitions submitted last month to refer House Bill 1230 to a public vote in 2012: Petition circulators submitted approximately 22,883 signatures to refer the measure to a…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem held a stinker of a phone chat with reporters on Thursday. Noem's parroting of talking points moved journalist Denise Ross to write the kind of direct criticism of an elected official that we don't seem to hear…