South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have barred transgender students from using school bathrooms that correspond to their gender identities. Had Daugaard signed the bill, South Dakota would have been the only state in the union to pass such a law.
In an intriguing new report by CNN, St. Joseph's Indian School has been "exposed" using less than honest sob stories and fake names in their letters to prospective donors—to the tune of $50 million last year. Turns out that "Josh Little Bear" didn't write you a letter begging for his continued sanctuary from poverty…
The South Dakota Republican Party last weekend approved a resolution calling on Congress to impeach Barack Obama. The resolution's sponsor has a "thick book on impeachable offenses of the president," he says. In related news, a South Dakota Republican claims to possess a thick book.
A GOP representative and nondenominational minister dismayed over challenges to his state's gay-marriage ban penned a pun-filled letter to his local paper criticizing what he perceives as the health hazards of gay male-on-male sex involving "a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down."
It must suck to be a wealth advisor in "North America's Siberia," home to two of the country's ten poorest counties. Unless you find a way to woo the 1 percent of the 1 percent away from Pacific Heights and the Upper East Side.
South Dakota may be last in the nation by a variety of education measures—but soon it'll be first in the only measure that counts: guns! Gov. Dennis Daugaard just signed into law a bill that would allow teachers to carry guns into the classroom—the first such bill in the country to make it into law:
This time lapse video turns sub-zero temperatures and the landscape of South Dakota into a serene series of skyscapes, shooting stars, floating clouds, and rustic farm houses.
Killing a doctor who performs abortions could soon be legal in South Dakota — that is, if a bill passed out of committee in the state House of Representatives on Monday, which makes it a "justifiable homicide" for someone to kill anyone attempting to harm an unborn child, becomes law.
You know what the problem with the right to bear arms is? It's not a requirement. Luckily, a few South Dakota lawmakers are hoping to change that with a law that would require anyone over 21 to buy a gun.
South Dakota Congresswoman-elect Kristi Noem narrowly won the election season's "hottest race" — the one with two under-40 female candidates — last week. And now her drooling male colleagues in Washington may give her a spot in the leadership!
Each August for the past 80 years, the men and women of Sturgis, SD (and many who travel there) gather for their annual Motorcycle Rally. This year, they had a very special surprise guest: Pee-wee Herman. Watch what happened inside.
The most Facebook-ish state in America, where 31 percent of residents have accounts, is South Dakota, according to an analysis of social network usage. Hey, the Great Plains get lonely. (Related: Facebook is also big in Dallas.)
