One hundred thirty-seven years ago our state founders placed the capitol in Pierre because it lay near the geographic center of a young frontier state. That decision fit a time when travel was slow and the population thin.
The facts that justified it no longer exist. South Dakota has changed, and good government requires us to change with it.
State government in Pierre is isolated and insulated from the rest of the state. The town has only 14,000 people. Meanwhile, South Dakotans live more and more in the southeast corner of the state, or the Black Hills.
South Dakota High Court deals Kevin Costner another defeat in Black Hills statue dispute
The South Dakota Supreme Court has driven a stake into the heart of a long-running legal feud between actor Kevin Costner and a South Dakota artist he commissioned more than three decades ago.
