The Aberdeen American News doesn’t endorse candidates. But in yesterday’s edition, the AAN editorial board endorsed my position on grassy buffer strips, a position my opponent in…
Month: August 2016
Nertz! Liz Hannum has withdrawn her candidacy for the vacancy on the Aberdeen City Council. According to AAN’s Elisa Sand, Hannum is withdrawing “to avoid…
In more Indian-friendly news, Henry Red Cloud and Jay Williams are campaigning together this weekend. The Democratic Public Utilities Commission and U.S. Senate candidates will march together in the Grand…
Responding to public blowback over his decision to book Indian-hating Ted Nugent to perform during the 2014 Sturgis Rally, Full Throttle Saloon owner Michael Ballard said he…
Now that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs is done shooting rattlesnakes off her Bad River deck, Ken Santema reports that she has two petitions for Independent…
The Board of Regents continues to push the magical concept of “degree production.” Bob Mercer reports that the Regents spent three hours yesterday at their River Rock…
Quick reach for a political parallel: Could Rep. Tim Huelskamp’s loss in the Kansas primary signal danger for Rep. Kristi Noem in the South Dakota general election?…
Public agitation over the proposed Deep Borehole Field Test didn’t just boot the proposed engineering experiment from Spink County; it killed the whole project. Two weeks ago, a…
I’ve been calling Senator Phyllis Heineman’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) self-serving “tax-credit scholarships” stealth vouchers since she first floated the plan in the 2015 Legislature. Now that Heineman’s school-privatization…
Rick Knobe is considering a third-party vote to send a message that the two major parties have failed by putting forward the “nauseating” and “dangerous” Donald Trump…