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South DaCola
Is the city planning on borrowing for NEEDED infrastructure?: First off, you DO NOT want to go down that path as a city, once you get behind the 8-Ball there ain’t no coming back. Many cities across the country who have done this have bankrupt themselves. On Tue…

2024.09.18

South Dakota News Watch
Vote South Dakota forum aims to shed light on 'complicated' election: Students will team up with journalists to ask questions at the forum, which will feature PUC candidates and representatives from both sides of ballot measures to be decided in November.…

2024.09.15

Northern Valley Beacon
On real fake news: The newspaper I worked for hired a journalistic "hero," who had served a month in jail in Colorado for refusing to reveal a news source. She had written about judicial corruption in Colorad…

2024.08.28

SoDak Governors
The Dakota Scout features Bulow and Anderson: Dan Gehlsen of The Dakota Scout does a great job featuring South Dakota history in the pages of Sioux Falls’ … More…

2024.08.14

The Displaced Plainsman
Who Are You Going To Hate Next?: The 2001 film Conspiracy has stuck with me for nearly two decades. It's based on the Wannsee Conference where the Nazis developed what became known as The Final Solution. The script is taken from…

2020.07.27

Prairie Perspective
The scoop on the stolen story: It wasn’t the first time and likely won’t be the last. But the sheer gall exhibited by KELO TV and its “investigative” reporter Angela Kennecke will be hard to top. They were inspired by, borrowed ...…

2020.04.26

Michael Wyland – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Civil Society and the Rules of Impeachment in the Age of Trump, Revisited: A little more than two years ago, our consulting editor wrote an article on the impeachment process—just in case we, as a people, ever had occasion to use it. Here it is, updated for 2019.…

2019.09.25

Dakota Rural Action
Grant County Revokes Manure Pipe Permissions; Upholds Private Property Rights: A unanimous decision by the Grant County Commissioners yesterday revokes permission for Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) operators to run force-main manure disposal pipes through the right-of-…

2018.07.04

Greater SD Blogosphere

SleuthSayers
Sleeping Giants: The Canton Native Asylum Story: I finally read Rene Denfeld's "Sleeping Giants" (thanks Janice!) and it's a strong, strong book. Especially since there are so many non-fictional places like the abandoned site of…

2024.09.19

Native Hope Blog
The issues surrounding Native American Education: Usually, back-to-school season means excitement for children. Back to school means buying school supplies and new clothes for the school year, plus the benefit of seeing their friends again. However,…

2024.09.16

Idle Hands Dep't
Geography Div ( Slow down subsection): Here in the wonderful (?) state of South Dakota, the Interstate speed limit is (mostly) 80MPH. State Troopers will give yo 81, but 82 is too fast.…

2024.09.16

Minister to the Heart
Why I have left: I asked the Church—Will you help us feed these kids?You have posters that sayBlack Lives MatterIf everyone takes a part, we could do it.They look back at me and say,“Why so many kids? 30 is a lot.”“Fi…

2024.09.10

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #634: New Releases Pt. 1: As we have all year long, this month's new release eisode is once again a two part series. This week's first part features a ton of "friends of the show". There's the monthly…

2024.09.07

Mark Haugen
Finished: 'The Silent Patient' by Alex Michaelides: "The Silent Patient" is the inaugural book by Alex Michaelides and was so good I immediately ordered the two he has written since.Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous paint…

2024.09.02

The Poetry of Barry G. Wick
Replacement: ReplacementI write to put poetryInto the worldFriendPut himself out of this worldHe wrote when I did notThis remembers himThis apologizes for my mistakeYesI invited him for sexIt ended our friendshipH…

2024.08.24

Horseshoe Seven
Bootjack Available!: I'm happy to note that my first real book of poems--Bootjack--is available for purchase from me or from the South Dakota State Poetry Society. You can order it here: https://sdpoetry.org/produ…

2024.05.16

OMG Center » Blog
Sermon on the Radical Prayer of Hannah, the Courage of Samuel’s Speech, the Humility of Eli’s Response, and the Invitation That It All Offers to Us: Dear OMG’ers,…

2024.01.18

Notes from a Western Life
Celebrating the Prairie’s Spring Birds: At 4:45 am, the first sounds I hear awakening are low murmuring chirps. When I open my eyes, the room is hazy gray with first light before sunrise. A breeze sighs through the open windows. I close my…

2023.06.19

A disgruntled and litigious former employee of Dakota State University has been pushing me to make blog hay out of two big resignations at DSU. I indulge said disgrunt. On October 22, the Board of Regents made the sudden and…

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Forbes-Boyte, Wittmayer Stepping Down from DSU Leadership