Earlier this month I posted CDC maps and data showing that South Dakota has twice the suicide rate of New York. Republican gubernatorial candidate Kristi…
Month: May 2018
Today’s tea leaf says Billie Sutton is going to win the Governor’s race. Still-new Education Secretary Don Kirkegaard is quitting his state job to go…
An eager reader says she caught the following ad for Neal Tapio on KELO-TV’s noon program today. Grace Hemeyer’s endorsement of Tapio shows the utter…
It’s good to be king, if just for a while To be there in velvet, yeah, to give ’em a smile It’s good to get…
I saw that Sioux Falls paper’s tagline for Donna O’Connell’s letter to the editor—”Sutton’s ‘Moderate’ Views a Welcome Change“—and thought, “welcome change from what? Haven’t…
Last night Rep. Liz May (R-27/Kyle) and Sen. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) filed paperwork (electron-work?) to create the Conservative Republican Caucus PAC. The PAC’s mail goes…
Some people rode horses in circles really fast here in Aberdeen over the weekend. Apparently the pay for the fastest riders—$1,700–$1,800—is so low that more…
Sheriff Brad Howell has dozens of county employees backing him with this independent communication in the Watertown Public Opinion: Codington County auditor Cindy Brugman will have…
Surprise! There’s another South Dakota Democrat besides Tim Bjorkman running for U.S. House! Or at least that’s what you might think of you looked at…
South Dakota voters rejected a nonpartisan top-two primary system in 2016. This year the SDGOP leadership quashed Rep. Drew Dennert’s HB 1305, which would have…