Let the Democrat in the room beat Bob Mercer to the punch: South Dakota Democrats continue to lag sorely behind Republicans and Independents in voter registration…
Month: July 2016
Attorney General Marty Jackley signs his name to another grandstanding, losing lawsuit. Today he announces he has tied our state to the stone cast in federal court…
Following up on my story yesterday on the Koch brothers’ revving up to oppose Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, Jonathan Ellis notes that the South Dakota…
That Sioux Falls paper reported this week that unfilled K-12 teaching positions continue to run lower this year than last. In June, South Dakota had 186 vacant K-12…
I was going to exert myself rebutting Ryan Kelly’s letter in my morning paper peddling the useful myth that the National Rifle Association is a helpful public service…
I’m as surprised as you are: it turns out I’ll be a guest this afternoon—an hour from now!—on 1140 KSOO’s Viewpoint University. Chancellor Rick Knobe plans to…
I don’t know when Congresswoman Kristi Noem last held a public town hall, but the woman who wants to replace her, Rep. Paula Hawks from Hartford, is…
Meanwhile, one Republican is able to oppose a ballot measure on something other than partisan grounds. Sioux Falls attorney and first Janklow-era Attorney General Mark Meierhenry joined…
Conservative opposition to two ballot measures is gearing up. The South Dakota Republican Party passed a resolution at its convention opposing Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary…
Former legislator Stanford Adelstein is trying to be his party’s voice of conscience against the fascism of Donald J. Trump. The Rapid City Republican has aptly compared Trump…