Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) continues to make stuff up to excuse his resistance to the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s teacher pay proposal. At the Stanley County…
Month: December 2015
Here’s something the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate won’t be able to use against John Thune: the Consumer Review Freedom Act. Senator Thune took up a…
Via Governing, I learn that state government general fund spending nationwide in Fiscal Year 2016 is up by 4.1 percent: Enacted fiscal 2016 budgets show aggregate general…
South Dakota Democratic Party chair Ann Tornberg has been ringing the fundraising bell with a twelve-day holiday e-mail push. But post-Citizens United, do state political parties…
Blog reader Lanny Stricherz contacted his Representative in Congress, Kristi Noem, to express his desire to welcome Syrian refugees into the strongest, richest nation in…
The FiveThirtyEight blog offers this cool interactive tool to find out the relative frequency of terms used on Reddit. The users of Reddit are mostly under…
Bob Mercer notes that the Tribal Economic Development Task Force plans to ask the Legislature to spend money to hire a tribal/reservation economic development specialist for the…
An eager reader suggests looking deeply into the Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll conducted December 7–10 that shows Senator Ted Cruz pulling ahead of Donald Trump for the…
Former Romney staffer and self-described Libertarian Michael Wille lied his way into a Donald Trump focus group conducted by Republican spinmeister Frank Luntz. Wille tried…