A South Dakota Moderate

Are smear campaigns becoming an accepted tactic in South Dakota? If you go by the results of an unscientific poll run over at SD Watch you might think so. According to Epps’ poll, 59% of those responding think that the smear campaign being run by the Tim Johnson spin machine is fair while only 38% [...]

When a large percentage of vehicle fatalities in South Dakota are alcohol related with an even larger percentage of teen and young adult fatalities related to alcohol, what does Bill Napoli want our federal lawmakers to do? How about removing the highway fund provisions making states set the drinking age to 21 so that South [...]

For some reason I don’t think the folks over at TransCanada are too worried but KELO is reporting on a sternly worded letter sent to them by the South Dakota PUC. In the letter the PUC basically told TransCanada that they are being watched in response to the number of complaints of unfair treatment by [...]

Now that Alan Hanks has won a heated and at times nasty runoff election for Rapid City Mayor over Sam Kooiker, he has announced that he will give up his District 32 seat tomorrow instead of holding on to it for a few months as he had originally considered doing.
On Election Night last week he [...]

I live 300 plus miles East of Rapid City and only get there once or twice a month so the Mayoral election has been quite honestly off of my Radar but the press being given the runoff election between Sam Kooiker and Alan Hanks is getting harder to ignore.
It really got interesting this morning after [...]