During last year’s debate over raising sales tax to raise teacher pay, conservative Republicans like Representative Elizabeth May justified their opposition to the plan by endorsing…
Month: February 2017
More corruption in South Dakota: A former Highway Patrol trooper pleaded guilty Monday to grand theft of nearly $70,000 seized during his time in law…
Representative Elizabeth May may not be testing SNAP recipients for drugs, but she and her fellow conservatives continue to aim more suspicion than compassion at the poor. May’s House…
I must still be a conservative: most of the time, I end up measuring the success of the South Dakota Legislature by what they don’t do…
Another corrupt Republican bites the dust: The former state’s attorney for Bennett County has been charged in U.S. District Court with evading business taxes and…
Representative Larry Rhoden’s criminal political stunt Monday—hitting the panic button in a Capitol committee hearing room just to see how long it would take the…
A key part protecting voters and progressive values from corruption in Pierre (not to mention fascism in the White House) is ballot initiatives. Our Republican…
Betsy DeVos is such a bad choice for Secretary of Education that even Aberdeen Catholic Schools president Jeff Simmons is concerned: Roncalli school district President Jeff…
On November 4, in our only one-on-one public debate during our campaign for District 3 Senate, Al Novstrup bragged about spending less on his campaign than…
I’ve expressed my tepid “better-than-nothing” support for two Republican bills today. Now let’s turn to a Republican bill that needs to be killed: House Bill 1130,…