The White House claims that the Republican tax law Donald Trump signed last week provides “$5.5 trillion in tax cuts, $3.2 trillion, or nearly 60…
Month: December 2017
Last winter, the Legislature passed 2017 House Bill 1052, now SDCL 3-16-9, which prohibits firing or otherwise punishing public employees for reporting violations of law.…
Hey, what’s the Pope have to say this Christmas? Oh, just that usual crazy Christian stuff about “revolutionary tenderness” toward all of our fellow pagans,…
Donald Trump has spent the year doing the opposite of what judge-turned-Congressional candidate Tim Bjorkman recommends. Trump’s Bureau of Prisons, under the Department of Justice,…
…who can write a 55-page position paper on the impacts of family breakdown and drug abuse on crime and incarceration rates in South Dakota, with…
AT&T helped Donald Trump propagandize his tax bill this week, claiming some connection between the big corporate tax cuts and the $1,000 bonuses the company…
More youth and vigor for the Democratic team running for Legislature in 2018: 26-year-old Tyler Volesky tells the Huron Plainsman he’s running for District 22 House:…
Jenae Hansen has some cross-state company. Rapid City Democrat James Preston announced his candidacy for District 32 House yesterday. Details are thin, but Preston promises…
Barack Obama’s tax cuts were bigger than Donald Trump’s. Obama’s landmark health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act, has also proven bigger and better than…
The first clear No Way José bill of the 2018 Session is House Bill 1005, one of the products of the mostly feckless and anti-democracy…