New Approach South Dakota, the group petitioning to place medical cannabis on the 2016 ballot, appears to have broken election law. The ballot question committee posted the…
Month: August 2015
I should have known better. Rather than finding some legal hammer to drop on Lisa Furlong and her belligerent, lying petitioners for trying to sabotage South Dakota’s…
The South Dakota Board of Regents meet this week in the swanky digs of River Rock Lodge. Among their agenda items is a discussion of…
Permit me a few minutes to talk about Bernie Sanders, my favorite candidate in the 2016 Presidential field. A couple weeks ago, Sanders appeared by video at…
An online petition calls on Attorney General Marty Jackley to investigate Springfield police officer Douglas Magee for shooting a dog. In a two-page statement filed…
Patrick Anderson reports that in the twenty years since the South Dakota Legislature stopped mandating and funding gifted education, 87% of local gifted education programs have…
With the Sioux Empire Fair wrapping up today, Lisa Furlong’s fake petitioners will have to take their decoy effort on the road. Watch out for their obviously…
KELO-TV repeats (with reminders from Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Deuel) that the teacher shortage is real, which invites Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) and I to have…
What happens to a Chamber of Commerce when it caves to local politics, fires its ambitious and effective executive director, and lets the city kick it out of a…
Blogospheric neighbor Ken Santema notices that Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) published the list of legislators who responded to her call for a special session of the Legislature…