Grassy buffer strips may rise to fight another day! Mike Jaspers, whom Governor Dennis Daugaard has appointed to replace Jaspers’s brother-in-law Lucas Lentsch as Secretary of Agriculture,…
Month: June 2016
Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn’t endorsed his party’s Presidential nominee (he voted for John Kasich and appointed to state court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, against whom Donald Trump has…
Back in 2012, when Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed funding the Rushmore Connector Trail between the Mickelson Trail at Hill City and Mount Rushmore, I said it sounded like…
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight noticed that Hillary Clinton’s win in South Dakota’s primary mildly defied the general assumption that Bernie Sanders played best in white, rural states…
Why would a good progressive liberal like me cheer the primary victory of Stace Nelson, a right-wingnut whose anti-tax, anti-government, anti-public education, anti-abortion extremism would wreak chaos…
Hey, Dennis! Primary’s over! Where’s the special session? Rick Knobe says it’s time to convene the Legislature to expand Medicaid. He says the Republicanism that has…
Two South Dakotans who circulated the petition for Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap on payday loans that we get to vote on in…
If the U.S. Department of Energy is serious about “consent-based siting,” then it will be taking the Deep Borehole Field Test someplace other than Spink…
Knock five points off whatever lead you think G. Mark Mickelson has in the 2018 gubernatorial race. The Sioux Falls Representative and railroad consultant (remind me to bring that up next…