Trump hailed the Turning Point USA founder "a beloved leader who galvanized the next generation" and an "extraordinary champion."

By the way, after all the resistance voters expressed to moving all of their students into one building, Oldham-Ramona-Rutland students and parents have been getting a taste of living and learning under one roof anyway this year. To accommodate demolition and reconstruction of the very old Ramona school, the ORR district is teaching all K-12 students in the Rutland building this school year…

The Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school board's creation of a plan to dissolve their school district may look like a surrender to the fractious constituents who fought the board's consolidated building proposal and petitioned for dissolution last March, but as indicated by the outraged response of district boosters to my Sunday analysis of the dissolution plan, the board and many residents are still fighting to keep their dwindling school district alive.

The white folks in Walworth County don't want solar power, but their Native neighbors across the river aren't so easily duped by the fossil-fuelers. After six years on the air, KIPI Radio will someday soon run on the sun: KIPI Radio 93.5 FM broke ground Monday on what will be the largest solar installation to date on the Cheyenne River Reservation.

We don't have to wait for the Affordable Care Act premiums to explode to see Americans lose access to health care; Republicans are already denying people health care thanks to shutting down the government and, concomitantly, programs allowing millions of Medicare recipients to access telehealth: The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct.

South Dakota's automotive dealer lobby is trying to keep Tesla out of South Dakota's market. I should be irate at the car dealers for rigging the market to protect themselves from competition, but if the Republican/Prostrollo lobby is sticking it to Elon Musk, I ought to celebrate, right? Ah, but I still believe in the fair market, I don't trust salespeople, and injustice for one, even for Elon Musk, is injustice for all, so I'm going to have to take Tesla's side.

On Friday, University of South Dakota professor of fine arts Dr. Michael Hook received notice from USD President Sheila K. Gestring that the university will no longer press its losing case to fire …

Fired Penn State football coach James Franklin’s nearly $50 million buyout is equivalent to about six years of budget at the university’s New...

Congress never banned living people on coins, just paper money. That’s Trump’s loophole.

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

The opposite of risk management.

OMB should not be doling out funds behind closed doors and must make public the contents of legally binding spend plans that apportion fund. Full transparency is critical for effective oversight.

USD political science professor Timothy Schorn says Republican attacks on professors' First Amendment rights are part of a "national effort to chill speech and control thought": After multiple Republican candidates for governor advocated firing university professors recently for personal social media posts, one of those professors says South Dakota politics is sliding down a “dangerous path.” “They’re trying to limit what universities can offer, what faculty members can teach, what we can say in the classroom, and now, apparently, outside of it,” said Timothy Schorn, an associate professor of political science and director of the University of South Dakota’s international studies program.

In a press release titled "A Shared Land," Governor Larry Rhoden wanders rhetorically toward his acknowledgement of Native American Day in South Dakota by cheering the American dictator's decision to march troops, including South Dakota National Guard propaganda officers, into Washington, D.C. He refers to "our nation's shared capital city", then eventually gets around to talking about the nine tribal nations with whom we share South Dakota.

Multiple Republican candidates for governor called for university professors to be fired recently over personal social media posts.

The Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school board is throwing in the towel. After consolidating two school districts just a couple years ago to preserve some semblance of community in the lonesome factory-farmland of northern Lake and southeast Kingsbury counties but facing persistent opposition to the practical implementation of consolidation, the ORR school board at its August 27 meeting put in motion a plan to…

The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected.

I am ashamed to live in a nation whose authoritarian, anti-democratic ruler claims he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than the actual winner, Maria Corina Machado, a woman fighting for democracy against the dictatorial regime of her Venezuela. Anyone who personally campaigns for the Nobel Peace Prize is working for himself, not for peace, and does not deserve a Nobel.

Watch out for Sheriff Rosco clicking his remote control north of Flandreau. The Department of Transportation is putting up variable speed limit signs between the Flandreau and Brookings exits on Interstate 29: These speed limit signs will change in real time based on weather and road conditions to keep drivers safe this winter. Several states, such as Colorado and Wyoming, already utilize these signs, and South Dakota is following suit.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.