Rep. Kristi Noem is part of new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s special eight-member advisory panel. She’s also bunking with him on Capitol Hill:…
Month: December 2015
The data-based and hence attention-worthy FiveThirtyEight posts charts on what it calls the “Endorsement Primary,” tallies of endorsements of the Presidential candidates by governors and members of…
When Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) first floated his potty bill last month, I noted the principles behind Rep. Deutsch’s urgent need to ban transgender students from the…
Fred Deutsch’s potty bill is one expression of the Christian right’s persecution complex, their sure sense that they are fighting evildoers (in this case, those darned transgender children who don’t respect…
At SDSU, Laurie Stenberg Nichols has been making $251,000 a year. She’s leaving to preside over the University of Wyoming, which will pay her a base…
Just what I wanted in my Christmas stocking—the first bills of the 2016 Legislative Session! HB, SB, whee whee whee! Now listed on the website that…
Merry Christmas, believers in democracy! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs this morning certified the redistricting petition! This summer and fall, Farmers Union collected signatures to submit to South Dakota’s voters a constitutional…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is looking at Medicaid expansion from a partisan political perspective, so why don’t we? In his December 8 budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard…
On November 8, Rep. Kristi Noem said she would not vote to extend the EB-5 visa investment program without changes: Noem said, “I will review any…
Your Department of Labor and Regulation tweets a cute infographic showing the South Dakota equivalent average wages for Santa’s helpers at the North Pole. Naturally, such South Dakota…