Six individuals are running to chair the South Dakota Democratic Party. How do we choose our chair? As I’ve explained previously, the state party constitution…
Month: February 2019
Lobbyist extraordinaire Jeremiah M. Murphy stepped before House Education yesterday and made exactly the arguments that I made against Representative Kaleb Weis’s ill-advised Teacher Code…
Our Legislature is showing the good sense to forge ahead with industrial hemp, despite Governor Kristi Noem’s visionless resistance to jumping on that economic opportunity.…
[Note: Four Directions has paid me for freelance writing. Four Directions is not paying me to write this article.] OJ Semans, leader of American Indian…
Governor Kristi Noem hasn’t completely crushed the spirit of wacky power-grabbing House Republicans. On Friday she told the Legislature drop its push to legalize industrial…
Prior to Senate State Affairs’ summary execution of Senator Reynold Nesiba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) Senate Bill 157, a real effort to improve civic engagement by removing unfair…
Some Republicans want to encourage green energy, but other Republicans continue to do the bidding of the fossil-fuel industry by trying to throw spokes into…
While Governor Noem and the Legislature wrangle over how to force more education on kids, Representative Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) wants to give kids less education.…
Some angry dads are too much even for Tom Pischke. Representative Pischke, the divorced dad who has dedicated his Legislative career to fighting child support…
Is House Bill 1090 the closest South Dakota will get to a Green New Deal? Representative David Johnson (R-33/Rapid City) brings HB 1090 to House…