In our discussion of Trump’s victory among red-state moochers, I cited David Roberts’s smart linkage of the social issues that some South Dakota Democrats are telling…
Posts published in December 2016
Pat Powers dings Attorney General Marty Jackley for not including enough representatives of crime victims on his new task force to figure out how to clean up…
While Democratic leadership has put Senator-Elect Reynold Nesiba on a “leave of absence” from the Senate Democratic caucus (was that what Brian Gosch called it when he…
Nobody seems nervous about the vote count in South Dakota. The margins were all big enough in our top-ticket races that no one is calling for…
Victoria Lusk reports that payday lender Check’n Go is closing its doors next week, thanks to voters’ wise decision to cap short-term interest rates at 36%…
Amendment S, the new crime victims bill of rights, is already infringing on the rights of defendants by keeping them in jail longer than necessary: The victim notification requirement…
On October 18, 2016, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources issued its requirements for the Deep Borehole Field Test. DENR prepared these requirements based on information…
“Companies are not going to leave the United States any more without consequences,” said our President-Elect today at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis as he…
Former Madison superintendent Dr. John Sweet thinks billionaire Betsy DeVos is a really bad choice for U.S. Secretary of Education. The retired education expert urges us to write our…
Want to know why 24 Republican legislators are dragging us to court over Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act that we approved at the polls last month?…