While Representative Michael Clark (R-9/Hartford) makes excuses for racism, the Vermillion City Council creates a Human Rights Commission that explicitly repudiates Clark’s Jim Crow thinking. The…
Month: June 2018
Janette McIntyre knows how to change her mind. In 2012, she admitted she had been wrong to back Governor Dennis Daugaard’s terrible, horrible, no-good education…
SDGOP Convention Had Voter Fraud, Delegate Ejections… and DiSanto Sending Progressive Smoke Signals?
Paging Krebs and Kobach: the only evidence of voter fraud in South Dakota this year comes from the Republican Convention, where Pennington County Republican delegates…
Among the remembrances offered on the passing of South Dakota political journalist Dave Kranz is Tony Venhuizen’s farewell. The Republican politico and chief of staff…
First Donald Trump said he wants to take our guns without due process. Now he says he wants to throw people out of the country…
Another Democrat joins the TenHaken/Heidelberger ranks of bestubbled candidates. Madison artist Chris Francis has announced his entry into the District 8 House race. His candidacy…
Among the interesting passages in the majority opinion in South Dakota v. Wayfair, last week’s monumental U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the 1992 Quill decision and allowing states…
South Dakota Republicans have proven their commitment to kakistocracy, rule by the worst. In the primary three weeks ago, South Dakota Republicans chose the lesser…
The Republican spin blog complains that Dana Ferguson spent “half” of her GOP convention recap reporting citizen protest outside the convention of the Republican Party’s policy…
As I reviewed the online sales tax laws that this week’s Supreme Court ruling validated, I found a potential problem in the small-business exceptions. SDCL…