To win the race for South Dakota’s lone House seat, Tim Bjorkman doesn’t need to make hay of Dusty Johnson’s association with accused Russian spy…
Month: July 2018
Following my post Tuesday on South Dakota’s rising suicide rate, an eager reader helps me find the updated suicide surveillance report with 2017 data on the…
Sifting through Maria Butina’s extensive trail of online commentary, Rolling Stone finds the accused Russian spy deeming her dupes at the National Rifle Association problematically undemocratic…
Not yet tanked by the Trump tariffs is the big soybean plant AGP is building here in Aberdeen. AGP has been cagy about telling us…
I noted last week that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Billie Sutton’s stated opposition to a state income tax cedes too much ground to the Republican fiscal…
While Trump gets ready to hand out welfare checks to buy the farm vote, perhaps he should throw some money toward the Americans whom he’s…
You know how Republicans like to say that we Democrats created the welfare state to trap an entire class of Americans permanently poor and dependent…
Our lower-than-national-average income inequality isn’t tempering some folks’ perception of South Dakota as a hard place to live. More of our neighbors killed themselves last…
Hey, here’s a happy economic fact! South Dakota’s filthy rich aren’t as far removed from the rest of us as the national 1% are! According…
“When you’re looking for a lawyer, you don’t check their political registration. You look for the best person to do the job.” In those two…