Holy cow! In what we might generously read as Mike Rounds finally standing up to Donald Trump, South Dakota’s junior Senator is co-sponsoring the Alexander-Murray…
Month: October 2017
Unable to protect the President from behind the scenes, the way a normal chief of staff working for a normal, competent President would, White House…
Initiative-hating Republicans are sure to portray the submission of over 50,000 signatures yesterday to place the Voter Protection and Anti-Corruption Act (we’ll see if IM22 2.0…
Our U.S. House candidates’ third-quarter campaign finance reports got me wondering how Tim Bjorkman is shaping up compared to recent Democratic Congressional candidates and his…
With Represent South Dakota’s circulators now off the streets, New Approach South Dakota is going all out, not just for its three initiative petitions (medical…
Joe Lowe, vice chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party, is as disgusted as Senator Chuck Schumer with the incredible and dangerous incompetence demonstrated by…
You know that big map of the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal that Marshall Damgaard’s political science students put together in spring 2016? It appears that anyone…
Alas, South Dakota isn’t the only state with a Capitol hostile to women. Daniel C. Vock’s new article in Governing says female lawmakers in California, Rhode…
Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray have reached their bipartisan deal to stabilize the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and restore the cost-sharing reduction payments that…
What are we afraid of? It’s hard to say from this letter to the editor in my morning paper, whose author seems to think there…