Gregory County cartoonist Jo Johnson offers this lovely visual representation of the cost of wanton disregard of First Amendment rights in the ballot question process:…
Month: January 2020
The Legislature managed to pass three bills through both chambers in January, and remarkably, none of them are awful. Two of the three fast-passers are…
Evidently feeling that her massive CAFO bribes to counties aren’t enough to secure the supremacy of meat milk and manure factories in South Dakota, Governor…
If you’re mad about the Republican Legislature’s bullying rampage on transgender South Dakotans, you should head to Nelson Park Saturday afternoon. Students and neighbors there…
Economist and Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is winding up for a one-two counterpunch to the Republican war on initiative and referendum. This morning I…
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is doing the people’s work in Pierre. Yesterday he filed two bills, Senate Bill 102 and Senate Bill 112, to…
The House yesterday voted 58–11 for House Bill 1055, a seemingly harmless little bill from the Secretary of State that changes the timeframe for terminating…
Hear, hear—the Chief Justice wants to reduce the cost of getting hold of court documents! House Bill 1086 strikes from the books the fee clerks…
Brigman Roger Cornelius, my friend, friend of the blog, has died. Cancer got him after a rich and interesting life of speaking out and working…