Asked to respond to a basic question about proficiency versus growth as testing metrics, Betsy DeVos, Trump nominee for Secretary of Education, served word salad…
Month: January 2017
Thank goodness Judge Barnett blocked Initiated Measure 22: now we can get back to reviewing all the great free chow our legislators (and sometimes spouses, cabinet officials,…
The South Dakota Republican Party begins this year’s attack on the people’s right to legislate at the ballot with Senate Bill 59, which includes two key provisions:…
A politically interested friend expresses due alarm at House Bill 1035, one of four bills carrying proposals from the Board of Elections to amend our petition and…
Alec Baldwin assured us Saturday that the looming Presidency “is real life, this is really happening.” The Scotland Herald Sunday TV guide clings to sci-fi doubt: After…
My local paper reports that 27,909 South Dakotans signed up by December 24 for individual marketplace health insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act. That’s 27,909 South Dakotans who…
The Augustana Research Institute (picture two Lutherans with a graphing calculator) has issued a weighty report on affordable housing in Sioux Falls. The report brims with concept maps showing the messy web of…
An undocumented driver caused minor mayhem on Aberdeen’s streets Sunday: Mamie Stugelmeyer, 95, of Aberdeen, was driving a car south on North Jay Street and…
Rep. Michael Clark (R-9/Hartford) takes a moment to mock public protest as futile: On the opening day, there was a group of a dozen or…
Al Novstrup talks a lot about how working in the Legislature is all about relationships. Maybe that’s why he keeps voting against banning sex between legislators and…