A couple weeks ago, the Legislative Research Council issued a prison/jail fiscal impact statement for New Approach South Dakota’s recreational marijuana initiative. Using the surprising…
Month: July 2017
Republicans may be bound and determined to saddle more Americans with medical expenses. starting September 15, Experian, Equifax, and Transunion will wait 180 days before…
The Alexander Mitchell Library Foundation announced yesterday that Aberdeen’s new public library will be named K.O. Lee Public Library, in honor of homesteader turned auto/tractor/grinding…
Right Wing Watch reports a strange manifestation of Christian dominionism under the least Christian President of the past century: Ralph Drollinger, the minister who leads regular…
The South Dakota Division of Banking is investigating whether Chuck Brennan’s payday lending stores can offer one-week loans at 36% APP plus late fees. Here’s…
Another petition is street-ready! Doug Kronaizl announces on Represent South Dakota’s Facebook page that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has approved his group’s South Dakota…
South Dakota Citizens for Liberty has released its “Second Amendment Scorecard” for the 2017 Legislature. As a whole, the Legislature scores relatively poorly in the…
In our discussion of Hobby Lobby’s unChristian deceitfulness, commenter O brings up “moral voting” and says Democrats/Progressives/Liberals need “to get into that fight”: Policy must…
Bending to widespread resistance, public outcry, and court challenges, Donald Trump’s election fraud commission (or should I say fraud election commission?) has asked states not…
SDPB mentions Lora Hubbel’s run for governor and gives her a chance to stir vague fears of growing danger in South Dakota: “What propels me…