…and Sports Betting a Progressive Tax? The Legislative Research Council doesn’t think sports betting in Deadwood will be a big moneymaker. In a fiscal note…
Month: December 2018
Earlier this month, the Legislative Research Council issued its fiscal note on the “meta-initiative“—the initiative to reform the initiative process—that I’ve proposed. Where the Attorney…
The Trump Administration isn’t counting how many people die in its custody, but the Legislative Research Council can tell you how many folks were living…
Hey, Hey, Donald J! How many kids have you killed today? I dunno, said Department of Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to the House Judiciary Committee…
Secretary of Defense James Mattis called it quits yesterday. The man Vox calls the last adult in the White House decided he can’t serve an administration hell-bent…
While Kristi Noem was adding to the donors and political pals who will run our state for her, she was not voting to avert the…
Kristi Noem just appointed Cooter Secretary of Education! Yeeha! Oh, possum on a gumbush—wrong Ben Jones. Dr. Benjamin F. Jones will take six months off…
As usual, when Donald Trump can’t get what he wants through honest deal-making, he cheats… and violates basic Republican principles. To pass its big liberal…
Governor-Elect Kristi Noem has picked FCC Services honcho former Republican legislator Kim Vanneman to be her Secretary of Industrial Agriculture. Vanneman has donated regularly to…
The Koch Brothers and the ACLU are cheering the Senate for passing a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, the First Step Act, focusing on offering…