In trivia from yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel… Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) compared his anti-refugee bill to his mom’s anti-nuclear waste bill, saying both are simply measures to…
Month: February 2017
When pressed on the repeal of Initiated Measure 22 at Aberdeen’s crackerbarrel yesterday, our District 2 and 3 legislators often resorted to painting the protestors against repeal vehicle…
The single truest statement of today’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel came from Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark): Every time someone’s made a comment today that’s anti-Legislature, it’s been…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen), who campaigned four months ago as an opponent of liberal tax increases, has proposed a liberal tax increase. Senate Bill 169…
On my front step this morning: We’ll honor you voters, say our Republican legislators, after overturning a law we voted on and approved less than three…
You know, I was adopted once. I’m not sure my parents would have been able to pass any religious test, but they did a good job…
Unlike Rep. Tim Goodwin, President Donald Trump makes his irrational anti-Muslim sentiments explicit: The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to…
Governor Dennis Daugaard signed House Bill 1069 yesterday, thus making the “emergency” repeal of Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, the first enacted bill of the 2017…
I’m still a teetotaler, but after watching Donald Trump spend down years of American geopolitical capital in one week to cash his ego checks, I…
Rep. Tim Goodwin has shown himself to be a poor reader of law; now the Rapid City Republican shows he’s just as bad at writing…