Kline: SDPB Canned Me for Failure to Be Objective (Translation: Silent) About...
A former prison official is suing South Dakota for firing her for reporting sexual harassment. A former prison guard is complaining to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the state fired...
View ArticleHouse Grouse Map Splits Vermillion into Three Districts
A couple of Twitter friends point out one radical bit of gerrymandering in the House-favored “Grouse” redistricting map proposed by Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen): Thomas Mack & Cully...
View ArticleDOH Needs 16 Days to Send 14-Quarantine Notice
I would much rather be sowing confidence in my state government’s ability to keep us safe during a pandemic. However, the evidence is mounting that the Noem Administration is not taking coronavirus or...
View ArticleVideo: Randy Seiler Commands the Stage at USD Political Science League Forum
Democratic Randy Seiler had the mic to himself last night at the USD Political Science League’s forum for candidates for Attorney General. I hear that Republican Jason Ravnsborg RSVP’d affirmatively...
View ArticleWear White to Families Belong Together Rallies in Aberdeen, Rapid City, Sioux...
Are you unhappy with your government’s abuse of human rights at our southern border? Then come make your voice heard at one of at least four Families Belong Together rallies in South Dakota tomorrow...
View ArticleVermillion 4th SD Town to Create Human Rights Commission
While Representative Michael Clark (R-9/Hartford) makes excuses for racism, the Vermillion City Council creates a Human Rights Commission that explicitly repudiates Clark’s Jim Crow thinking. The...
View ArticleVermillion March to Protest School Gun Violence March 24
Vermillion is among many cities joining the nationwide March for Our Lives demonstration on March 24: On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets to demand that...
View ArticleUSD Offers Noon Luncheon on Anti-Refugee Bigotry
The USD Muslim Students’ Society, the USD Center for Diversity & Community, and other sensible sponsors help us get to the bottom of one South Dakota cultural dysfunction with “Understanding...
View ArticleDamgaard Briefs State-Tribal Relations Cmte on GEAR UP Scandal Map Monday
You know that big map of the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal that Marshall Damgaard’s political science students put together in spring 2016? It appears that anyone who’s willing to crowd into the Dakota...
View ArticleUSD Won’t Move Law School to Sioux Falls, But Looking at “Hybrid”
South Dakota’s law school will be staying in Vermillion… sort of. At its final meeting today, USD’s Law School Task Force rejected the idea of moving the law school to Sioux Falls and instead approved...
View ArticleSierra Club Showing Inconvenient Sequel in Vermillion Sept. 18
The Sierra Club of South Dakota is hosting a free(!)* screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power at the Coyote Twin in Vermillion on September 18 at 7 p.m. The film is Al Gore’s...
View ArticleNelson Requests Lengthy GOAC Meeting in Vermillion to Review GEAR UP Evidence
In the John Wayne Toilet Paper department, Senator Stace Nelson tells his Republican colleague Senator Deb Peters that he will fulfill her request that he provide evidence on what he knows about the...
View ArticleVideo: Randy Seiler Commands the Stage at USD Political Science League Forum
Democratic Randy Seiler had the mic to himself last night at the USD Political Science League’s forum for candidates for Attorney General. I hear that Republican Jason Ravnsborg RSVP’d affirmatively...
View ArticleWear White to Families Belong Together Rallies in Aberdeen, Rapid City, Sioux...
Are you unhappy with your government’s abuse of human rights at our southern border? Then come make your voice heard at one of at least four Families Belong Together rallies in South Dakota tomorrow...
View ArticleVermillion 4th SD Town to Create Human Rights Commission
While Representative Michael Clark (R-9/Hartford) makes excuses for racism, the Vermillion City Council creates a Human Rights Commission that explicitly repudiates Clark’s Jim Crow thinking. The...
View ArticleVermillion March to Protest School Gun Violence March 24
Vermillion is among many cities joining the nationwide March for Our Lives demonstration on March 24: On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets to demand that...
View ArticleUSD Offers Noon Luncheon on Anti-Refugee Bigotry
The USD Muslim Students’ Society, the USD Center for Diversity & Community, and other sensible sponsors help us get to the bottom of one South Dakota cultural dysfunction with “Understanding...
View ArticleDamgaard Briefs State-Tribal Relations Cmte on GEAR UP Scandal Map Monday
You know that big map of the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal that Marshall Damgaard’s political science students put together in spring 2016? It appears that anyone who’s willing to crowd into the Dakota...
View ArticleUSD Won’t Move Law School to Sioux Falls, But Looking at “Hybrid”
South Dakota’s law school will be staying in Vermillion… sort of. At its final meeting today, USD’s Law School Task Force rejected the idea of moving the law school to Sioux Falls and instead approved...
View ArticleSierra Club Showing Inconvenient Sequel in Vermillion Sept. 18
The Sierra Club of South Dakota is hosting a free(!)* screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power at the Coyote Twin in Vermillion on September 18 at 7 p.m. The film is Al Gore’s...
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