Pat Powers has been trying to manufacture a story out of the fact that his party’s golden boy, Republican Alex Jensen, has been raising lots…
Month: February 2020
If California entrepreneurs can turn CAFO crap into energy, then the hoghouse of Senate Bill 179 must have some real power potential. (Sorry—the Legislature inspires…
Poop is power, says California’s Brightmark Energy, which plans to come from San Francisco to South Dakota to turn factory feedlot manure into natural gas:…
Just when we think the Legislature has come to its senses, it proves us wrong. After voting last week 30–33 to throw away Senate Bill…
Gregory-area rancher Nancy Johnson Wirsing wrote last month about the apparent journalistic tilt toward pro-CAFO corporate propaganda. This month she writes about the hazards of…
As your next Governor, I vow to repeal the school sentinel program and make it illegal for anyone other than a uniformed law enforcement officer…
I want to write about Representative Kelly Sullivan’s (D-13/Sioux Falls) body-piercing bill, but alas! House Bill 1289 so far has no body to pierce. It…
Representative Caleb Finck (R-21/Tripp) proposes House Bill 1284, which would do two things the Legislature is loath to do: repeal sales tax exemptions and give…
House Education takes up a problematic bill from Representative Doug Post (R-7/Volga). House Bill 1177 would move school board elections from taking place each year during…
This week’s social-conservative self-gratification comes Wednesday morning, when Representative Isaac Latterell (R-6/Tea) comes before House State Affairs with House Bill 1277, his proposal to regulate…