De Knudson came to Aberdeen today to see some old friends and collect signatures for the Open Primaries South Dakota initiative petition. Amidst that business,…
Month: September 2017
We haven’t seen any sign in Donald Trump’s still-incomplete tax plan of Hillary Clinton’s really good idea of a standard deduction for small businesses. But…
Dakota War College does its sponsors’ bidding again, this time forwarding the Koch Brothers’ effort to jam direct democracy by discouraging people from signing any…
In what promises to be a wide-ranging meeting next week Thursday and probably Friday, the Government Operations and Audit Committee will discuss Tri-Valley school superintendent…
Bob Mercer notices that LRC is posting documents for the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s meeting next week in Sioux Falls. Among the items jumping…
The Sioux Falls City Council chickened out of advancing an ordinance last year to protect LGBT residents from discrimination. Braver Brookings has picked up the…
The Hill notes that two Democratic victories in legislative special elections in Florida and New Hampshire this week bring to eight the number of state-level…
The Aberdeen American News draws all sorts of angry letters to the editor from local white conservatives who don’t want their complacent Trumpism upset weekly by…
Aberdeen joins the fall celebrations of sport this weekend with both high school and university homecomings. I’ll participate tangentially in the jockocratic jubilation—and you can…
Hot on the heels of U.S. House candidate Tim Bjorkman’s announcement of a public forum in Sioux Falls on October 5, gubernatorial candidate Senator Billie…