Guns matter far less to the proper functioning of South Dakota government than our legislators would have you believe. Guns won’t raise teacher pay, expand Medicaid,…
Month: January 2016
Last fall, the Board of Regents considered pushing for alcohol sales on campus. Only SDSU expressed great enthusiasm; the other campuses’ reactions ranged from cautious interest…
Rep. Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) has a good idea: ban racist school team names! House Bill 1147, introduced Thursday by Senator Bordeaux and four other Democratic colleagues…
Rep. Fred Deutsch’s paranoid potty bill bullies transgender kids. It will also prevent Fred from taking a whiz at next year’s Watertown HS basketball games. House Bill 1008 seeks…
In other efforts to hang the “Different People Not Welcome” sign on South Dakota, the South Dakota Legislature continued its war on transgender kids this week.…
Rep. G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants more confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the mega-feedlots that South Dakota governors love and that city boys like himself…
The yahoos are at it again in Pierre. Rep. Scott Craig—a Christian pastor who should know better than to be inhospitable to strangers—is leading Aberdeen’s Novstrups and several other…
Kelly Duncan, Stacy Phelps, thanks for the idea! The Democratic caucus in Pierre is willing to learn from the corruption exposed in the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal.…
The Legislative hopper is getting cluttered with carcasses, empty shells thrown into the hopper while we wait for sponsors to figure out the details of what they…
House Health and Human Services wisely killed House Bill 1076, the unconstitutional DiSanto/Olson proposal to drug test all welfare recipients. GOP mouthpiece Pat Powers offers a good…