Dakota State University recently announced that it is searching for a new dean of the College of Business and Information Systems. The press reported that former dean Tom Halverson and associate dean Wayne Pauli had "stepped down" to pursue full-time…
Posts tagged as “protest”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in McCullen v. Coakley yesterday that a Massachusetts law prohibiting free-speech activities within 35 feet of the entrance or driveway of an abortion clinic violates the First Amendment. The buffer zones serve the Commonwealth’s legitimate…
Dakota Rural Action member Juli Ames-Curtis is throwing a concert for her neighbors and fellow Black Hills water-drinkers. The "It's About Our Water" concert happens Saturday evening, downtown Custer. Why should you go? It's a protest against Powertech/Azarga's dangerous scheme…
The South Dakota Corn Growers say that Big Oil has "hijacked" the railroads and is cutting into farmers' ability to ship their harvest and access fertilizer: Dennis Jones, a farmer near Aberdeen, S.D., and co-founder of the South Dakota Corn…
The human rights rally in Rapid City appears to drawn a good crowd to protest Senate Bill 128, the Legislature's latest assault on civil rights. My on-the-scene observers play the conservatives, estimating that about 150 people came to Main Street…
That went well. South Dakota ranchers protested earlier this month when Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade organizers assigned Joan Jett to South Dakota's parade float. We can't have some vegan PETA activist standing next to our fake rolling replica of Mount…
The Republican spin machine touts a photo of a smug American tossing aside traffic cones marking off closed federal park facilities as "civil disobedience." First, we need to throw the B.S. flag. Republicans, you don't get to hold America hostage,…
Busy Dems are happy Dems! The South Dakota Democratic Party calls its faithful friends to action today and tomorrow. Today the Dems plan to do some shouting about the government shutdown in front of Congresswoman Kristi Noem's Sioux Falls office…