Great job South Dakota! In a land where right-wing talk shows, & news has a monopoly

[shcrane71]

Brookings, SD is airing DemocracyNow! Breaking the sound barrier with the first station in the state airing DN.

http://www.democracynow.org/stations/south_dakota

[freshwest]

1. Does sound like big news. Thanks for the information. Might turn some things around there.

[newfie11]

2. now for west river to get

On board!

[LuckyLib]

3. It's a start. In a state where women can't get access to abortions, a doctor from the Twin Cities

for years was flying in to offer medical services at a clinic. She probably still is.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. That's a college town, home of South Dakota State University.

Most talk radio up there is absolutely horrid.

WNAX in Yankton, the first station west of the Mississippi (where Lawrence Welk once polkaed down), which has a huge presence, is all right-wing talkers (except for sports and the pork belly futures), and even has stupid, wannabe-Rush right-wing DJs who are always giving a platform to Rep. Steve King of nearby Iowa, who is just horrid.

The state legislature just acted, thank God, to protect the state from the sharia law threat.

This is a state with homemade anti-abortion billboards replete with dead fetuses (fetusi?) adorning the farm fields.

And they're not too fond of animal rights people, either.