My petitioning friends and I have 90 days to gather enough signatures to pause the Legislature’s bad ideas. Some civic brainstormers in Yankton have given themselves 100…
Month: April 2015
South Dakota Progress formed last winter in response to the Democratic Party’s continued underperformance in South Dakota elections. SDP’s mission: to recruit, train, and support good progressive candidates…
That Sioux Falls paper picks up a March 23 article from the Tri-State Neighbor that repeats a cry we’ve heard before from other CAFO dons: South Dakota’s big dairies want Uncle…
Speaking of dependence on federal handouts, the Black Hills Knowledge Network posted last November that South Dakotans do not claim nearly as much of a housing subsidy via the…
Holy cow! My friend and fellow Madison native Michael Hope made a movie… about pot! Following Colorado’s legalization of marijuana in January 2014, Hope spent the year…
Pine Ridge English teacher Dominique Alan Fenton gets that Sioux Falls paper to run the article on youth suicide on the reservation that national advocacy website Color…
Brookings friends! Are you looking for a chance to sign the petitions to refer SB 69 and SB 177 to a public vote? Tuesday—tomorrow!—is your day! Circulators…
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to shake hands and talk substantively with a Cuban leader since President Eisenhower met with…
Tom Daschle is speaking in Aberdeen tomorrow. The Aberdeen paper tells me that our former Senator will be speaking at the Aspire Foundation’s inaugural dinner and fundraiser at the…
So I was petitioning at the Brown County Fairgrounds at the Hub City Spring Big Boy Toy Show yesterday (and I’m going again today! 11 a.m.…