A lifelong resident of this good state, I’ve been pretty well employed since I was in third grade. All of that is another story.
I got a kick out of your story. Especially since I am not a big fan of Mr. (Dusty) Johnson, and I won’t be voting for him anyways.
There is some good that he has done. We will leave it at that.
But what gets me with you editors or reporters is that you are pretty quick to give any Republicans a lip smacking, but you sure don’t have the guts to give any of the Democrats anything even close. They have done some pretty gutless garbage the last few years. Still, crickets with their bizarre policies. You are definitely a Democrat cheerleader just like the paper in my hometown of Spearfish.
If what the Editor is trying to tell us is that he is not biased, I would like you and your colleagues to prove it.
Kody Spaulding
Spearfish
Dems hold zero power in this state but he still wants everyone to blame them for the consequences of one party republican rule. “Anything that doesn’t blindly reinforce my world view is left/bad”
Mr. Spaulding, as a liberal reading the Scout, I find the exact opposite to be true. I have frequently found the Scout to have a conservative bias and I just figured that's what you get when you live in a deeply red state. And I will echo what CivicsMatter said. Dems have zero power at the state level in SD and very limited power at any local level. If there are problems here, there is no valid reason to go after the 'liberals' as the reason for the problems. Maybe if things ever return to a more even keel politically in this state, you will see the reporting going after both sides more frequently. And if I was willing to take the time, I could go back rereading articles and give you examples of conservative bias in stories, but I have a life and a job, so maybe another time. The Scout also doesn't report on the bad behavior of my neighbors. You know why, because they have no influence on those around them, so no one cares.