Speaker G. Mark Mickelson is mingling business with Legislature again. In his ongoing effort to turn every rural corner of South Dakota into concentrated animal…
Month: February 2018
Last week Tim Bjorkman’s U.S. House campaign got favorable mention in Vice. Now the Democrats’ gubernatorial candidate gets even bigger out-of-state press. The Economist recognizes that Democrats…
Apparently raising taxes on drivers makes Republicans say really silly things. When Governor Daugaard wanted to raise our gasoline tax, he had to say silly…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has secured a whopping $84-million settlement from Ariel Quiros, who defrauded EB-5 visa investors in Vermont to pay his own…
While we slept, Rep. Kristi Noem voted to reject the Senate’s deficit-boosting two-year spending plan and shut the government down again. So did 66 Republicans…
The South Dakota Republican Party has a Trump problem. They have Neal Tapio, a rich outsider, trying to take the Trump route to fame and…
Neel Kashkari, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, held a public forum in Pierre this morning. Among the questions he fielded was a…
Senate Education surprised me this morning and killed Senate Bill 103, Senator Stace Nelson’s proposal to turn the Board of Regents and vo-tech schools into…
According to Charles Gaba of ACASignups.net, South Dakota is one of sixteen states where more Americans signed up for Affordable Care Act Exchange health insurance…