When I first read Sen. Neal Tapio’s challenge to Secretary of State Shantel Krebs, I thought I could be reading an expression of outrage from…
Month: December 2017
Ah, the smell of money…. Mark Mickelson and Paul Kostboth have been trying to make it easier to set up and expand factory feedlots—concentrated animal…
Ronald D. Arnold’s probate documents indicate that his daughter, Kristi Noem, has misrepresented the family’s 1994 estate tax situation. According to the inventory filed in…
Now that a Democrat has won an Alabama Senate seat for the first time since 1992, South Dakota U.S. House candidate Shantel Krebs might want to…
Rep. Mike Stevens (R-18/Yankton) told the Yankton school board last night that the 2018 Legislature may consider 150 more bills than last year. That would…
British journalist Anna Jones spent a year traveling the world on a Nuffield Scholarship to explore how largely urban populations and media have become disconnected from farmers.…
The Animal Industry Board spent 90 minutes discussing the ban on video auctions of livestock in South Dakota. (I didn’t even know we had such…
Feedlot fanatic Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) continues to press his one-track vision of rural economic development by threatening to take away state aid to…
Oh, but enough about taxes and politics. Let’s have a happy Christmas story, about Freeman natives and high school sweethearts John and Donna Beier growing…
Last month the SDGOP spin blog huffed and puffed about Rep. Susan Wismer’s characterization of Congresswoman Kristi Noem’s tired old “estate tax nearly took my…