Opinion

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Flandreau is hosting a pulled pork fundraiser on Sunday, April 28th from 11:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. to support sending local youth to the National Youth Gathering in New Orleans this summer.

Speakout

As the cabinet secretary for the South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs, I travel across this great state and visit with veterans in every county. These trips also afford me the opportunity to …

Commentary

It looks like hard work has paid off for the state’s Democratic Party as it gets ready to field its biggest slate of legislative candidates in recent memory. This may not mean the end of …

Commentary

Don’t think for a moment that just because the final gavel has fallen on the 2024 legislative session that the work of lawmakers is over for the year. That work continues on through the summer. …

Other Views

As cars go electric and get more technologically advanced, their interiors are increasingly being built around prominent dashboard touch screens. Nearly every automaker has been moving controls …

South Dakota Editorial Roundup

A forum held last week in Vermillion explored the state of democracy in South Dakota, and three veteran lawmakers all agreed that the health of democracy in this state leaves a little to be desired. …

Should Moody County double check that its electronic vote tallies are correct by doing a follow-up hand-count?

Commentary

The end of the legislative session is usually a time for congratulations, much of it well-deserved. The 2024 Legislature balanced a $7.3 billion budget. That budget included 4% raises for state …

SpeakOut

Agriculture is the lifeblood of South Dakota, and it is a heritage deeply rooted in our state. You can’t go far in South Dakota without encountering some sign of our bustling agriculture …

Flandreau farmer Eugene Johnson earned a first-place state award in the 2023 National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) National Corn Yield Contest with a yield of 271.57 bushels per acre.

The Crystal Theatre Board is excited to share that the initial 2024 performance schedule for the historic and newly renovated theater is set.

Commentary

On a warm, mid-August afternoon in 2018, a group of newspaper publishers and editors gathered at the meeting room of the South Dakota Newspaper Association in Brookings. They were there to question …

South Dakota Editorial Roundup

Editor's note: This editorial appeared in the Yankton Press & Dakotan on March 11. A proposal by the U.S. Postal Service  that would downgrade the processing and distribution centers at …

Commentary

  Throughout the recent past, Republicans in the South Dakota Legislature have had a tempestuous relationship with Medicaid expansion. When the federal government offered a way to expand …

Commentary

Ever since the South Dakota Legislature dismantled the voter-approved anti-corruption measure known as IM 22 in record time, lawmakers and the people who back initiated measures have been locked in a …

By Carleen Wild Moody County Enterprise At 13-years-old, Blaine Kansanback is one of the most polite and unassuming young men you might ever meet. The Colman area youngster just celebrated his …

The Super Bowl, for most of us, suggests it’s the end of another great season of football. Not for Dani Flute. The 38-year-old All-American Women’s Professional Division 3 Football player …

Commentary

In 1990, Gov. George Mickelson proclaimed a century of racial reconciliation in South Dakota. Given recent events, it just might take that long. Gov. Kristi Noem managed to anger Native American …

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