Brown County’s second murder of the year was justified, says the Brown County State’s Attorney. Zach Newell was shot multiple times in the wee hours…
Month: February 2020
A fellow citizen came to the Aberdeen City Council meeting Monday and spoke eminent sense: we need to control more intersections on Melgaard Road! The…
Senator Susan Wismer likes songbirds, but she wants less Tweeting on the highway. She’s one of three dozen co-sponsors of House Bill 1169, which would…
When Senator Susan Wismer (D-1/Britton) testifies to Senate State Affairs on behalf of Senate Bill 141, her proposal to make the Bobolink South Dakota’s official…
I write a lot about the time-wasting culture-war bills that Republicans use to distract us from real problems and bully non-conforming minorities out of our…
In addition to promoting Breitbart bigotry and bad bill-writing, Representative Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) is helping Tom Pischke’s Angry Dad caucus take away no-fault divorces.…
…But let’s never get too optimistic about Republican legislators’ respect for basic human rights. Representative Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) has wadded all of his caucus’s…
Back to good ideas from Democrats: Representative Kelly Sullivan (D-13/Sioux Falls) last week filed House Bill 1216, a measure to protect interns from workplace abuse.…
Full disclosure: my household receives a pastor’s salary and housing allowance. The Democratic caucus usually writes much better bills than its Republican counterparts in the…
Campaign finance reports are finally in from all ballot questions committees that circulated petitions in 2019. Let’s compare the successful petition drives with my own…