Reminder to all my northeastern South Dakota Democratic friends: the Brown County Democrats are hosting a summer kick-off fiesta tonight, 7:30 p.m., at Mazatlan, downtown Aberdeen!…
Month: June 2015
Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) says she wants a special session for the Legislature to address K-12 education. She complains to KCCR Radio that there’s not enough…
The Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students drew good crowds in Sioux Falls yesterday. Patrick Anderson of that Sioux Falls paper reports over a hundred participants at…
Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa has raised security concerns (concerns affirmed by the Department of Homeland Security) about the EB-5 visa investment program and the mostly private “regional…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has said there’s no way South Dakota could set up a state-run health insurance exchange in time to save the premium tax subsidies that the…
Several days ago, I read the wonderfully ironic Rapid City Journal headline, “Thousands of Hippies May Invade Black Hills for Gathering This Summer.” The local…
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is offering marijuana proponents a chance to toke up before the medical cannabis measure makes the ballot. The tribe voted last week to…
The Deadwood City Commission gave first reading last night to a new ordinance that would ban exotic animals in town. The ordinance, posted at the bottom…
No wonder my neighbor Ken Santema hasn’t been blogging much; he’s been working on a lawsuit with Brendan Johnson! Senate Bill 69, the misfiring petition reform bill…
The capital city’s press agrees with me that hiring Lawrence & Schiller to advertise the state lottery without reading the contract smells of cronyism: Is it just us, or does it…