South Dakota civil rights organization Four Directions continues to fight racism in the judicial system, This week, Four Directions petitioned the Federal Northern District Court of California to preserve the investigation file on Judge Richard Cebull. Judge Cebull heard and…
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Ah, the Fourth of July, when we all come together as Americans with a shared love of country and dedication to our common cause in building a free and democratic community... ...unless you're in Rapid City, in which case the…
Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker wanted to promote Lt. Elias Diaz to police chief. That choice didn't go over well with Rapid City pundits like John Tsitrian and Stan Adelstein. The City Council vetoed Diaz, forcing Kooiker to turn to…
Black Hills blogger Bob Ellis bleats that Governor Dennis Daugaard has betrayed the Republican Party by criticizing Senator Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City). To support this claim, Ellis points to a letter to the editor in which Glenn T. Freeman of…
In the dog-bites-man column, Governor Dennis Daugaard says that Sen. Phil Jensen's defense of KKK-style discrimination is "completely out of line with South Dakota values." It's not hard to gang up on a Republican Senator who says stupid things that…
That Rapid City paper gives its readers reason to start looking for a new state Senator. In this morning's edition, reporter Daniel Simmons-Ritchie gets State Senator Phil Jensen to reveal the threat he poses to civil liberties, admitting that he'd…
South Dakota's anti-abortion legislation is bad enough. When it takes a racist turn, it's worse. House Bill 1162 seeks to make it illegal to abort a fetus because of the fetus's sex. Like other abortion laws on South Dakota's books,…
P&R Miscellany tries the now-familiar tactic of beating us liberals over their head with our own relativism and tolerance. P&R forgets that I'm not a relativist and I don't tolerate baloney. P&R counters the successful backlash against South Dakota's failed…