Eight years in Pierre gives Rep. Patrick Kirschman another advantage over challenger Reynold Nesiba: fundraising. According to pre-primary campaign finance reports filed last week, Kirschman…
Month: May 2016
Remember how our Legislature passed stealth vouchers to give their insurance company pals tax breaks for laundering public money into private-school scholarships? Even if we set aside…
Saturday I noticed that the old stockyard along US 212 in Redfield has been turned into a staging area for construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Mary Lou…
In our discussion of Aberdeen-based Prairie Country PAC’s postcard attacking Caleb Finck for wearing women’s clothes (a mailing PCPAC has since scrubbed from its Facebook page), some readers got…
Let me be clear: conscientious objectors do not forfeit their right or ability to participate in government. When our country has had a draft, we…
Dr. Reynold Nesiba takes to the Web-waves to present his résumé to the Democratic and Independent voters of District 15, who will decide in the…
Jason Glodt is pushing legislative candidates to endorse his Amendment S, the vanity bill California billionaire Henry T. Nicholas is paying Glodt good money to promote here in South…
Dang it! Dang it! Heck and darn! The Legislature snuck away with another portion of our petition rights, and I only noticed yesterday! Last Session, the Board…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced late Friday that she has again rejected the petition filed by Melissa Mentele and New Approach South Dakota to…
The Minnesota Legislature wrapped up messily last week without getting much done. But they did pass the Working Lands Watershed Restoration Program to help control erosion and…