In the South Dakota Blogosphere, this liberal outpost opposes Amendment S, the redundant astroturf crime victims bill of rights known nationally as Marsy’s Law, while my opposite…
Month: May 2016
Could the Daugaard Administration be seeing the light on a progressive tax system? Bob Mercer reports that Pat Costello, chief of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, told the…
Correction: while the Board of Regents spent what seems like an inordinate amount of money ($156,000) to make an in-house hire for SDSU’s next president, they did not spend some…
If North Dakota allows corporations to buy up swine and dairy operations, maybe Senator Chuck Grassley can rescue small livestock growers from that corporate takeover. Iowa’s…
My morning paper reminds me that fish in a couple of area lakes continue to carry a bit too much mercury. The Department of Health now posts mercury…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t running for reëlection, but he’s watching his Legislative baby like a hawk. Recall that Rep. Schoenbeck saved the teacher pay-raise plan last winter…
The gentleman I seek to replace in the Legislature, Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen), is noted for “taking the lead” on a 2015 elder abuse task force that…
Pat Powers mumbled something this morning about needing the Dakota Access pipeline to free up rail cars for agriculture products. But the decreased railroad volumes…
It appears that wet weather has delayed TransCanada’s plan to dig up more sections of its leaky Keystone pipeline southeast of Menno. But what’s that sitting…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says his plan to raise teacher pay is working: “There’s a variation in the kinds of increases we’re seeing, but no question across…