A bill to get rid of grades and standards? It’s my K-12 education dream come true! Wait: Senate Bill 13 would “repeal certain provisions concerning potato grades…
Day: January 3, 2017
Last year, the Legislature passed Lee Schoenbeck’s proposal to to require public bodies to post their meeting notices and agendae at leas two days prior to their…
In a remarkable double-header this morning, Greg Belfrage interviewed liberal blogger me at 8:05 and Republican State Senator Stace Nelson at 8:35 as his first guests of 2017. Holy cow—that’s…
J.J. Perry reports a strange trend in participatory democracy—fewer letters to the editor in 2016: This year, 280 Public Voice letters, guest columns and thank you letters were published in…
A Bloomberg report leads me to the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm that advises investors how politics will affect business, and its report on the Top Risks of 2017. The…
Boy, if there’s one thing Republicans who control the Legislative and Executive Branches hate, it appears to be independent ethics commissions. South Dakota Republican legislators sued to stop…