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Greetings.

Welcome to the launch of The South Dakota Standard! Tom Lawrence and I will bring you thoughts and ideas concerning issues pertinent to the health and well-being of our political culture. Feel free to let us know what you are thinking.

Thanks to support from our readers, The Standard is an independent voice that stands up to power. Can you help us keep at it?

Thanks to support from our readers, The Standard is an independent voice that stands up to power. Can you help us keep at it?

Tom Lawrence and I make it our business to speak up, not just on our own, but with many knowledgeable, passionate writers from throughout the area who use The Standard as a platform for getting important and relevant messages out to the people of South Dakota.  

We do this with a commitment to keeping our content free to our readers, without the oversight and pressures of political sponsorship or commercial advertisers.  

Thanks to financial support from our readers, we’ve been able to maintain our pace, as well as our place, in the public conversation.

If you’d like to join in and be one of our supporters, you can do so easily and safely by hitting the PayPal button on your right.  

If you prefer to mail a check, please make it out to The South Dakota Standard and mail it ℅ John Tsitrian  6144 Wildwood Drive  Rapid City, SD 57702.

With Tom Lawrence, I thank you for empowering us. We won’t let you down.  John Tsitrian

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