Instead of picking an experienced legislator like Scott Parsley to replace ethically deficient Mathew Wollmann, Governor Daugaard fills the District 8 House vacancy with a partisan choice,…
Month: January 2017
Here’s one more reason I’m glad not to have to support Mike Huether for public office in 2018. In vetoing a requirement to record public meetings of unelected city boards…
Rapid City police are investigating the city’s fourth murder in 30 days and the third this January. Chicago faces its own grim murder stats, with 37 killings so…
Joining the House Democratic caucus (minus Representative Shawn Bordeaux, who was excused) yesterday in opposing the repeal of Initiated Measure 22 were Republican Representatives Mike Stevens,…
The House Select Committee formed to discipline former legislator Mathew Wollmann for having sex with interns met for 23 minutes today. Since Wollmann spared them most of…
To resist, we must remember. On the same day that the Trump White House brought the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines back from the…
It only makes sense that resurrecting the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline would make Donald Trump’s Top Ten To-Do List. Keystone XL is shovel-ready—as in shoveling-hogwash-ready,…
I’m not the only one who thinks the “emergency clause” Republicans are using in House Bill 1069 to repeal Initiated Measure 22 is unconstitutional. Rick Weiland…
Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) has roused 18 Republican colleagues to co-sponsor a poorly worded, unworkable, and unconstitutional restriction on out-of-state campaign contributions to ballot question…
Senate Bill 67, our democracy-fearing Legislature’s attempt to make it 88% harder for South Dakotans to amend their constitution without Legislative interference, goes before Senate…