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New Law Accepts Some Photocopies But Not Others to Prove Citizenship for Voter Registration
5+ hour, 16+ min ago (208+ words) A new South Dakota law now requires people to document that they are U. S. citizens when they register to vote. But the South Dakota League of Women Voters wants the state Elections Board to change its administrative rules. Angie Cleberg of…...
Off-Year Convention: GOP Staging "Trumpapalooza" to Prevent Trump Midterm Losses
5+ hour, 42+ min ago (343+ words) In December 1978, 1, 633 Democratic delegates gathered for the second midterm convention at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. This meeting proved even less successful than the first. Carter's defense of his anti-inflationary austerity plan, which would cut the federal budget,…...
Canadian Disdain for Trump Depresses Tourism in Minnesota and Nationwide
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (470+ words) Minnesota hospitality and tourism businesses reported continued challenges with rising costs and declining customer demand heading into summer in a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Hospitality Minnesota. The survey received 119 responses from across the state…...
Day One's Bill of Essential Rights: Reparations, Basic Needs, Freedom of Movement
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (898+ words) and guns are a problem, not a solution. Organizers of the new Day One Movement announced in the Black Hills yesterday say they want to wipe the slate of 250 years of American injustice and start anew on July 5: "In order…...
Republicans Nominate Another Rotten Candidate to Run Elections
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (433+ words) Dakota Free Press Republicans Nominate Another Rotten Candidate to Run Elections For all the noise Republicans make about maintaining the historical and well-documented integrity of our elections, their picks for Secretary of State suggest they aren't really interested in having…...
Rhoden to Get Lots of Great Runoff Campaign Photos with Trump at Rushmore; Doeden Stuck Cheering from Cheap Seats
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (487+ words) I grit my teeth at the prospect of Donald Trump sullying Mount Rushmore with his presence again and begging to have his face carved into the mountain. So may be Toby Doeden, who for all his love and apery of…...
SB 245 Petition Drive Fails, Relieving Some Runoff Pressure on Rhoden
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (261+ words) South Dakota's body politic has endorsed Governor Larry Rhoden's statewide property-tax/sales-tax swap with its silence. South Dakotans for Fair Taxes, a coalition of Dakota Rural Action, Bread for the World, and the state AFL-CIO, yesterday declared the failure their…...
Arrest Warrant: Pischke Forged 16 GOP Delegate Election Statements
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (162+ words) The handwriting on those 16 documents did match the handwriting on the precinct committeeman statement that Tom Pischke filed on January 7. Senator Pischke has thus been arrested on two felony charges of offering a false or forged instrument for filing. Pischke…...
Disconnected from Reality, Dodo Doeden Throws Cheap Insults at Rhoden, Venhuizen
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (782+ words) Hey, Republican fence-sitters! If you're still trying to think of a reason to vote for Larry Rhoden in your party's gubernatorial runoff, how about the fact that Toby Doeden is an insulting jerk? Consider Doeden's classless and baselsss attempt to…...
Data Centers Grossly Exaggerate Job Creation
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (246+ words) I've cited one November 2025 study showing no net job growth from data centers in Texas. Planning and power expert Catherine Curtis finds that data center builders grossly exaggerate their job creation potential: First, the national picture: Brookings Institution researchers compared…...