The United States Army Corps of Engineers has told Dakota Access pipeline protestors occupying (reclaiming?) the Oceti Sakowin Camp to move it or lose it. In an…
Month: November 2016
Even though Donald Trump’s proposed border wall is geographically ignorant, economically counterproductive, and locally unwelcome, our looming dictator still plans to expand the border wall. But…
Don’t ask me to lead the Thanksgiving prayer—I’ll talk turkey. Today I am thankful for… A President-Elect who means what he says and says what he…
Members of the Electoral College are feeling besieged by partisans lobbying them to vote for one candidate or another on December 19. A dramatic surge of…
Ah, South Dakota, land of Trumpism writ large. We want to build a wall… New security barriers are in the works for the state’s Capitol…
If Republicans’ Thanksgiving wishes warrant free publicity, so do Democrats’. My friend and fellow Democratic pot-stirring Frank Kloucek throws this goody into his holiday stew: gratitude…
Remember loan shark/pawn king Chuck Brennan’s effort to push his debtors to contact the Governor and the sponsors of the new 36% interest rate cap and urge…
My local paper’s editorial board looks at the higher salaries South Dakota’s K-12 teachers are getting from the half-penny sales tax hike enacted last June (my updated calculation: an 11.6%…
Just as we Democrats are getting good advice to focus on bread-and-butter economic issues in the 2018 election, some Republican decides to drag the culture…