South Dakota is closed: Gov. Kristi Noem has ordered the closure of state government offices in all South Dakota counties Thursday (today) due to the…
Month: March 2019
The USDA’s latest cattle inventory says that, as of January 1, 2019, there were just about 29 bovines for every 100 Americans. Divide ’em all up,…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) can be happy that he was wrong. Three months ago, Senator Monroe predicted the Legislature would repeal the Partridge Amendment. Cue…
Senate Bill 128, the horse-racing subsidy, hobbled across the Legislative finish line with a fifth of what its Republican sponsors wanted. Prime sponsors Senator Jeff…
To beat the impending blizzard, the Legislature convened just after midnight, passed a 4.9-billion-dollar budget that most of them had not read, and adjourned at 3…
Evidently suffering from too much time and budget on her hands, Governor Kristi Noem felt the need to produce a 1:22 Twitter ad to justify…
Governor Kristi Noem is clearly trying to distinguish herself as the Newspeakiest governor in South Dakota history. Outdoing even the rich falsehood quota of her…
It didn’t look like any Blue Wave happened in South Dakota last year. We Democrats didn’t win any statewide seats or any more Legislative seats,…
John Cunningham, one of the six people contending to lead the South Dakota Democratic Party, has issued his plan to rescue the party from a…
The Tornberg-Lucas Box Lunch of Appreciation isn’t the only chow option for Democratic State Central Committee members coming to Oacoma March 23 to elect the…