A South Dakota Moderate

The libel suit brought by Dan Scott over Argus Leader editor Randell Beck’s column is set to move forward. PP over at the War College has the ruling.
UPDATE: KELO has more:
In Wednesday’s ruling, Judge Kathleen Caldwell said there’s no clear law that says that a reader would have been able to figure out if the [...]

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Chad Schuldt, of Clean Cut Kid fame, was charged with Grand Theft for stealing $200,000 from Obama campaign political consultant Hildebrand Tewes Consulting Inc.
Chad Schuldt, 37, stole nearly $200,000 from his former employer by overpaying himself, misusing a company credit card and causing federal tax penalties, according to a Sioux Falls Police affidavit for [...]

During my childhood, the Soviet Union was the evil empire, the bastion of communism, and our hated opponent during the 35 plus year cold war that saw bomb shelters being built in peoples back yards, ballistic missiles being deployed in Cuba, and unknown near misses that could have resulted in all out nuclear war. The [...]

I guess State Motor Vehicles Director Debra Hillmer will have to better keep up with acronyms and word plays as her request to have the state stop allowing vanity plates was shot down in committee this morning.
State Motor Vehicles Director Debra Hillmer told legislators Tuesday that it has become very difficult to decipher all the [...]

The Argus Leader lost another round in the Dan Scott libel case brought against the paper by the Sioux Falls Development Foundation president over a column published last July.
A Minnehaha County judge Friday denied a motion by the Argus Leader to dismiss a libel lawsuit brought against it by Dan Scott, president of the Sioux [...]

After a week that included a former state legislator being convicted of terrible crimes, a former sheriff being arrested for killing his wife and a murder trial West river, one might think that they are living somewhere other than South Dakota, then a story gets printed that reminds you of where you actually are.
Police [...]

You might want to stay indoors for a few days.
Vice President Dick Cheney is back in Central South Dakota today – and as always, he is hunting birds, not votes.
Cheney arrived aboard Air Force 2, which landed, coming in from the south, at about 10:58 a.m. at the Pierre Regional Airport. He is making [...]

A KELO story of a 28 point buck shot near Clark.

Usually I only see deer this big running out in front of my truck

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Lodgenet has been the target of quite a bit of controversy lately because certain conservative groups have been complaining about some of Lodgenet’s content being served to hotels across the country. The South Dakota Family Policy Council has gone so far as to call for a Justice Department investigation into what they call the “Nations [...]

An environmental toxicologist hired by TransCanada is assuring us that the chance of a leak anywhere along the 220 miles of oil pipeline proposed to run through South Dakota is no more than once every 41 years.
An expert for a Canadian company planning to build a crude-oil pipeline in eastern South Dakota says professional estimates [...]

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 [...]

Is this attempt going to be the charm? A story in the this morning’s Argus documents the latest discussions on passing a total ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants in the state.
As Minnesota prepares to become the 17th state to ban tobacco in all bars and restaurants Monday, tobacco foes in South Dakota [...]