Last spring, Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) blasted the Deep Borehole Field Test, saying the Governor and the president of the School of Mines were pushing to bring…
Month: January 2017
Representative Mathew Wollmann (R-8/Madison) resigned from the South Dakota House today over his admitted sexual misconduct with Legislative interns over the last two years. In another case…
Speaking of tax incentives, Governor Dennis Daugaard has submitted his grassy-buffer-strips bill. Senate Bill 66 revisits the issue the Governor vetoed last year on constitutional grounds.…
Apparently South Dakota isn’t alone in sluggish tax revenue growth. Governing says that, even as we squeeze the last bits of growth out of the Obama economy before…
Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) agrees with me that Senate State Affairs made a good move Friday by striking the constitutionally unworkable Section 2 from…
A friend of mine expresses her love for President Trump by throwing all sorts of anti-Obama, anti-Clinton, anti-liberal memes—many debunkable in seconds—at me on Facebook. Ever…
Two weeks into the 2017 Session, my State Senator, Senator Al Novstrup, finally provides District 3 with his first update from Pierre. But wait: Novstrup’s letter isn’t really an…
For five decades, South Dakota ran its vo-tech schools unconstitutionally, allowing local school boards to manage them instead of the Board of Regents, the only entity authorized by the…
While President Trump lied about the size of his Inaugural crowd, women and folks who like women marched in support of women’s rights and in protest…