The South Dakota Democratic Party agrees with me that the votes by Kristi Noem, John Thune, and Mike Rounds to block better online privacy rules are not…
Month: April 2017
John Tsitrian reads Senator Mike Rounds’s blah-be-de-blah about agriculture in his Sunday paper and says our junior Senator’s trope about overregulation and hope for higher commodity…
One autopiloted Uber car smacks into a non-robot car whose human pilot was bending the rules, and humans suspend the robot program and consign the driverless-car revolution to another generation…
GOP spin blogger Pat Powers cares so much about autism that he’s willing to advocate big government intrusion in the marketplace to make sure his…
The dangerous incoherence of the Trump Administration continues. Today, the President of the United States said that the U.S. can “solve” North Korea unilaterally. He has…
Spearfish Mayor Dana Boke has managed to win a temporary pay raise. Since city administrator Joe Neeb resigned in February, someone has had to make all…
Just like San Francisco city employees and insurance execs, the mountain pine beetle is staying away from South Dakota. The beetle epidemic that turned much of…
Earth Day is coming and so are the Marches for Science! On Saturday, April 22, believers in science, logic, and facts (that should be all of…
Meanwhile, in my northwestern district, film aficionado Thomas Black wins my vote for Aberdeen City Council solely on creative movie logo repurposing: Details are thin on his…
Ten candidates have filed for four Aberdeen City Council seats. Running in the southeast district against incumbent councilman Clint Rux is political newcomer Kaleb Weis. His campaign…