South Dakota has a higher rate of births to unwed moms than any neighboring state. We have more people, but fewer are getting married: from 2000 to 2011, the marriage rate dropped from 9.1 per thousand residents to 7.5. And…
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The Board of Regents last week named former New Mexico Congresswoman Heather Wilson the new president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The Regents tout her public-sector experience, even though she is mostly a creature of government.…
Can the church and South Dakota keep her? University of Sioux Falls student Dannika Nash points to the hopeful example of 5,000 young people in Sioux Falls cheering marrige equality: I got to go to the Macklemore concert on Friday…
And in the "Picked His Dope on the Wrong Side of the Ditch" Department, Gordon Howie harps on former Senator Larry Pressler's support for marriage equality and draws this impossible conclusion: It makes me wonder if perhaps Senator Pressler is…
M. Michael Rounds spoke to David Montgomery about gay marriage Monday. His answer doesn't seem tuned to please anybody. On the one hand, he reminds us Democrats (and you Libertarians!) that we need to find a solid candidate to beat…
Senator Tim Johnson has spared South Dakota the embarassment of having the last Democratic Senator who supports marriage discrimination against non-heterosexuals: After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious…
I regularly hear from happy readers that the Madville Times provides them the comfort of knowing that they aren't alone harboring liberal thoughts in South Dakota. I thus have some sense of the value this news report may have for…
Dog bites man: South Dakota isn't a nice place to be gay. The Human Rights Campaign has issued a new report calculating a "municipal equality index" for 137 cities across the U.S. The group didn't include Sioux Falls or Rapid…