Governor Kristi Noem is exercising a novel form of pocket veto on the budget and spending bills still on her desk. She signed the FY2021…
Month: March 2020
South Dakota’s jobless claims jumped last week from 190 to 1,703. Governor Kristi Noem said at her Thursday press conference that our Department of Labor…
Boris Johnson gets it—er, I mean, the British Prime Minister gets that coronavirus is a real problem, especially since he has gotten covid-19: Over the…
The coronavirus pandemic requires a temporary replacement of capitalism with socialism, because the free market can’t work when we can’t go to the market. If…
Hey! Governor Kristi Noem vetoed another bill… and it’s not the hemp bill! (At tonight’s count, that one, House Bill 1008, is still sitting ominously…
South Dakota’s doctors, nurses, and hospitals agree: the best thing we can do to save two million American lives is stay home: Physicians, nurses and…
Remember a couple weeks ago when we were fretting about whether teachers would get their statutorily required 2% raises in the coming fiscal year? Kiss…
Judge James Boasberg said it before; yesterday, he said it again: Donald Trump broke the law when he rushed the environmental review of the Dakota…
Governor Kristi Noem said Monday that we all should implement social distancing measures. O.K., said nine Pierre inmates: The breakout at the Pierre Community Work…
Some Republican Senators tried last night to reduce the unemployment benefits promised to low-income workers by the pending 2.2-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief bill. Senators Ben Sasse,…