Remember all the effort we made just three years ago to rouse the Legislature from two generations of neglect of public education, increase sales tax…
Month: June 2019
Come July 1, thanks to the first law signed oh-so-runway-swaggeringly by Governor Kristi Noem, insecure South Dakotans will be able to strut about town with…
Governor Kristi Noem spoke to the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly “Women in Business” event Wednesday in Minneapolis: Our Women in Business event with @govkristinoem…
John Tsitrian does a fine job of skewering Donald Trump’s claim to be somehow making America “the envy of the world” with some simple and…
Senator Marion Michael Rounds thinks we can make America greater by getting rid of the federal Department of Education. We could save far more money—and…
Public radio is in for it today: Lori Walsh has invited me to talk about the People Power Petition Drive on In the Moment on South…
South Dakota’s regressive politics have cost us a shot at hosting the national Botany Conference. In an e-mail to at least one member of the…
The Governor’s Office hasn’t had one of Kristi Noem’s children’s friends send me any nastygrams yet, but the Governor’s agriculture people seem a bit sensitive…
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this. After a less-than-successful home-based petition drive in 2017, Spearfish ballot question sponsor John Dale has taken…
My friend and newshound Dave Baumeister is circulating an editorial column called Nobody Asked Me. In his most recent column, Baumeister rebuts Rep. Jon Hansen’s assertion…