To remind us of the worst thing that happened in 2016, I post in full the Facebook message Jan Chamberlin posted Thursday announcing that she was resigning…
Month: December 2016
In 2010, the South Dakota Legislature voted to create a prescription drug monitoring program, basically a central database in which doctors and pharmacists can enter the…
Flaccid tax receipts have not deterred members of the Legislature from seeking to spend more money. Among the measures arising from the Interim study of nursing home and assisted living…
The Legislative Research Council didn’t beat Christmas, but they did manage to post the first fifteen bills of the 2017 Session before New Year’s! The first bill in the…
Having poked my religious neighbors, I now yield the floor to quasi-fellow Aberdonian Pastor Steve Hickey, who offers this review of South Dakota politics in…
Thursday morning’s Aberdeen paper ran Megan Raposa’s November 28 report on home-schooling. I found the report interesting in its concerted effort to de-emphasize the role of…
The folks who tried to place medical cannabis on this year’s ballot are gearing up for a petition drive to put two measures to a vote in…
We would like to blame Mr. Sveen, but we’re not going to do that. —Reed Rasmussen, attorney for the defense, saying the second-most interesting thing…
The Sioux Falls media are giving their local business leaders all sorts of boosterist press this week. One main story is the building boom on…
Schadenfreude! KDLT’s Anndrea Anderson jumps on the news that Badlands Pawn has laid off a dozen employees as a sign of doom for Brennan’s last foothold in South Dakota:…