After all that talk of a “Blue Wave,” South Dakota Democrats made zero progress in the Legislature, increasing their share of the 70-seat House of…
Month: November 2018
Speaking of thug tactics, Todd Epp reports that someone dumped Ku Klux Klan materials at a Sioux Falls polling place: The KKK literature was placed…
This is the Trumpist fascism we fight. At Vice-President Mike Pence’s last-ditch attempt to save Kristi Noem from losing to Billie Sutton, South Dakota Republican…
The Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force meets next Tuesday to discuss the absurd, Rube-Goldberg system of taxing South Dakota’s farm and ranch land based on…
As Senator Stace Nelson notes in my bubbling Election Eve comment section (don’t we all have to go to work tomorrow?), Republican Representative Kyle Schoenfish…
I was hoping to compare the money raised by the five candidates for District 7 House. However, two weeks after the submission deadline, one of…
Among the joys of living in South Dakota is watching a statewide political candidate’s Election Eve video and being able to count all the people…
Republicans like Drew Dennert and Kaleb Weis are running for Legislature on, among other things, their promise to find more money for all of our…
I’ve heard some opponents of Initiated Measure 25, the tobacco tax for vo-techs, say that raising the tobacco tax won’t make anyone quit smoking. But…
Even elitist Republican Speaker G. Mark Mickelson admits that the initiative and referendum process is “very cool.” It certainly was cool in 2016, when it…