Returning Republican District 9 Senator Deb Peters wins recognition as one of Governing‘s eight Public Officials of the Year… mostly for supporting more taxes: In South Dakota,…
Month: November 2016
If I took Ken Santema’s advice, I wouldn’t comment on Bill Fuhrman’s response to the Aberdeen American News‘s question to its Reader Panel on whether…
When Kristi Noem says “I’m all in,” she means her money is all in. In September, Rep. Kristi Noem said she opposed Initiated Measure 22,…
I was having a perfectly lovely day until I learned that a woman has accused one of the few new Democrats going to Pierre of acting…
Affirming her belief in citizen legislators and “temporary service”, Rep. Kristi Noem comes on YouTube tonight to vow not to make a career out of…
Battelle has a new South Dakota player for the Deep Borehole Field Test! An eager reader points me toward the September 15 edition of the Philip…
…but IM 22 will make ballot question finance more quickly transparent! If Reps. Don Haggar and Jim Bolin were really worried about the influence of…
The South Dakota Legislature’s enhanced Republican supermajority plans to wage more war on democracy. Rep. Don Haggar and Rep. (soon to be Senator) Jim Bolin are…
Everybody talks about the ill weather of the Trumpist election, but nobody does anything about it… except the Pennington County Democrats, who called a meeting on…
John Thune said on election night that our fascist President-Elect needs to balance his “drain the swamp” appeal with practical governance: “He is somebody who…