The Senate* passed Senator Stace Nelson’s useless “build a wall” resolution Thursday (thank goodness that’s over), but only after striking almost every instance of the…
Month: January 2019
While Governor Kristi Noem has opened her administration with cramped, visionless proposals, illogical Trumpist excuse-making, and bunker-mentality sniping at other states, freshly inaugurated Governor Gavin…
Congressman Dusty Johnson introduced his first bill yesterday, HR 382, to cede some federal land in the Black Hills to Custer County for its airport:…
Yesterday Governor Kristi Noem retweeted one of the biggest baloney lines from her State of the State Address, Trumpily claiming that South Dakota has a…
In her State of the State Address Tuesday, after vowing absolutely not to raise taxes, Governor Kristi Noem led off her list of things she…
The Department of Labor and Regulation released results of its latest Employee Benefits Survey yesterday. Among other highlights, 50% of firms responding to the survey…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went to Cairo to make a political speech calling the 44th President of the United States a weak, faithless coward.…
I received a letter “Mailed from a South Dakota Correctional Facility” a few days ago. Two small pieces of tape held the envelope shut; the…
Senate Bill 43 is the Board of Regents’ proposal to fund the collaborative rural veterinary medicine program South Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota…
The South Dakota Legislature needs shorter oath of office. To take office, legislators are led ploddingly, sometimes one word at a time, through 131 Constitutionally…