A nickel last time, a dime this time: the Department of Labor has announced that South Dakota’s minimum wage will rise to $8.65 an hour on January…
Month: October 2016
Donald Trump has uttered many statements over the last fifteen months that sounded like the words that would end his candidacy. Tonight we heard the ultimate…
A friend forwards me the ballot question recommendations of the women of Democracy in Action in Rapid City. It turns out that, as with NARAL Pro-Choice SD,…
The Class Act of the Week is Democratic Senator Jim Peterson (D-4/Revillo). Senator Peterson proposed Senate Bill 136 this year to incentivize grassy buffer strips…
KSFY dispatches its Aberdeen bureau to cover the riveting District 3 Senate race! Alas, Mondesir mispastes my statement on corruption to Initiated Measure 22. The clip…
Climate change activist Bill McKibben understands that Hillary Clinton is not as progressive as our preferred candidate, Bernie Sanders. But McKibben also understands that Clinton…
I just spent twelve minutes listening to the podcast of Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) stammering through his Monday interview with Greg Belfrage about Referred Law 20,…
The Watertown Public Opinion and I have our points of disagreement on the ballot measures, but NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota lines up with me perfectly: (Review…
Maybe newspapers just see the chance to sell more ads during the primary season. The Mitchell Daily Republic has company in endorsing Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary…
Democratic candidate for U.S. House Rep. Paula Hawks led off last night’s televised debate by revealing that she was a victim of sexual assault by…