Hillary Clinton is beating Donald Trump in South Dakota… in fundraising. According to Christopher Doering’s reading of FEC reports through the end of July, Clinton has…
Month: August 2016
Conservatives celebrate Big Oil projects and ridicule environmentalists who argue that we should leave oil in the ground. Yet conservative former legislator, now Bon Homme County…
The Pro and Con statements on Amendment R, the measure to clarify governance of our vo-tech schools, show a battle between the two wings of…
House Majority Leader Brian Gosch says Republicans made Referred Law 19, so “Every voter, especially Republicans, should support Referred Law 19.” The South Dakota Democratic Party…
Regular readers know I’m big on direct democracy. We can’t vote on everything—governments and organizations need governing boards and executives who can make certain decisions without having…
Governing says that South Dakota has the 15th-strongest economy in the United States. We tie with three other states for that distinction: Georgia, Nebraska, and…
The U.S. Department of Energy is soliciting new bids for the Deep Borehole Field Test: The U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID) requests proposals for…
A couple summers ago, I found I could agree with 52% of the platform of the Libertarian Party of South Dakota. I can agree with 100%…
Protestors—some participants prefer the term protectors—have gathered on 50 acres north of Cannonball, North Dakota, near the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers, to fight the…