Looking for the proper response to the specious “what-aboutism” that Donald Trump is aping to defend statues to swiftly toppling traitorous Confederates? You don’t have to…
Month: August 2017
At an August 2 budget work session, Commissioners Ron Buskerud and Mark DiSanto “joked” and laughed about wishing we could just take criminals out back…
Senator Jim Bolin joins his colleagues Rep. Tim Reed and Senator Ernie Otten in the continuing Republican war against people power. Even though he said…
Dana Ferguson finds Dakotafest attendees clinging to the “Let Trump do his job” narrative to excuse their support for the incompetent racist in the White…
My Lutheran friends, and perhaps all Christians and South Dakotans, will want to review this pastoral message from Bishop David Zellmer of the South Dakota…
An undercard on the AP story on the Avera/Sanford premium increases that Trump isn’t solving—one Sioux Falls resident says the Affordable Care Act is working…
Avera and Sanford health plans are planning to raise premiums for the Affordable Care Act health coverage they sell in South Dakota (Avera 20%; Sanford…
Responding to the revision error in the currently circulating recreational-marijuana petition, Rep. Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) said on August 1 that he and fellow interim initiative…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson has collected at least 160 signatures on his ballot initiative petition to ban out-of-state contributions to South Dakota ballot question committees.…
In an unusual announcement for a ballot question committee, Represent South Dakota says that, as of August 12, it had collected 16,484 petition signatures, over…