Northern Valley Beacon, Interested Party, and Terry Woster recognize yesterday's 120th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, wherein we conquerors (a word said not with pride) killed 300 more of the conquered. For the 23rd year, Native American riders commemorated…
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Doug Wiken was right: in her "exit interview" with Judy Woodruff on PBS NewsHour last night, Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin did not mention losing her Democrat base with her Blue Dog politics as a factor in her defeat in November.…
There are many ways to determine an annual "Top Stories List." In the blogosphere, one useful measure is the amount of conversation provoked by a story. So here's my list of the this year's big conversation starters, as measured by…
Incoming (that's what teachers and school boards should start shouting any time Republicans enter the room) South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson demonstrates the warped free market fundamentalism that pollutes our public policy. At the end of the 2010…
And there was wailing and gnashing of dry teeth.... The Madison Daily Leader reports that the failure of the omnibus spending bill in Congress means more uncertainty for the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. Remember, the GOP didn't want…
South Dakota's budget crunch is coming in part because of increased enrollment and costs in Medicaid. It's funny, then, that South Dakota is trying to block one way to fix that fiscal problem: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…
Father Tim celebrates the apparent decline of vice in South Dakota. The Northern Plains Anglican reads in that Sioux Falls paper that video lottery revenue in the three weeks following implementation of the voter-approved indoor smoking ban dropped 19.1%. Good…
That darned Madison Daily Leader beat me to the local unemployment numbers for November! According to the South Dakota Department of Labor, Lake County saw unemployment rise in the run-up to the holidays, from 4.6% in October to 5.0% in…