In a fit of sanity yesterday, the Legislature’s interim committee on the South Dakota High School Activities Association declared itself pointless and refused to recommend either of the…
Month: October 2015
Joop Bollen and EB-5, Scott Westerhuis and GEAR UP, Jason Gant and iOASIS and the filched flag—even the sober and serious Bob Mercer is compelled…
Last spring, in the midst of the bird flu outbreak that devastated South Dakota turkey and egg factories, South Dakota’s GOP spin blog briefly stepped out from behind…
Georgia’s legislature passed a law in 2014 allowing schools to arm their staff, like South Dakota’s 2013 school gunslinger law. Guess what happened? Just like in South Dakota,…
GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated in Wednesday night’s debate in Boulder that he’ll cut taxes $10 trillion without increasing the deficit, thanks to the fact that…
Attorney General Marty Jackley may give us some answers next week about the September 17 deaths of the Scott and Nicole Westerhuis family in Platte:…
Finding $75 million to increase pay is $32 million more difficult, according to information presented to the state Council of Economic Advisers yesterday: Jim Terwilliger told members…
$48,000. 39th. $75 million. Those are the parameters—not the plan, just the parameters—that the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students issued from their final…
Republican Secretary of State Shantel Krebs previews (pre-empts?) the campaign message you’ll hear from South Dakota Democrats in every campaign in 2016: “I’d heard from bankers, I’d…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is meeting in Pierre right now. You can listen online as the panel tries to produce solid recommendations…