Usually I write my Thanksgiving morning blog posts from my in-laws’ den in Lincoln, Nebraska. Not this pandemic year. Here’s what we’re missing and what…
Month: November 2020
South Dakotans cast 219,074 absentee ballots in the 2020 general election, more than twice the number cast early in the 2016 general election. More than…
In a commentary this morning on MSNBC, Tom Brokaw says that South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck saved many lives during the influenza epidemic of 1918…
As the biggest petition nerd in South Dakota, I’m embarrassed not to have noticed sooner the third initiative proposal posted to the Secretary of State’s…
Representatives-Elect Will Mortenson and Erin Tobin won’t be the only legislators wearing masks in Pierre during Session. Bob Mercer reports that the Legislative leaders are…
Perhaps recognizing that challenging Amendment A, South Dakota’s marijuana legalization, via an election contest will go nowhere in court, anti-pot plaintiffs Kevin Thom and Rick…
Wow—after Sanford Health CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft brazenly kicked the legs out from under his organization’s pledge to promote mask-wearing to fight coronavirus in South Dakota…
The SDGOP belches forth more hilarious hypocrisy as Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) tells us South Dakota state government can’t do anything to fight the public…
Here’s a funny one: Canadian pipeliner TC Energy, formerly Transcanada, says its long-delayed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline fits perfectly with President-Elect Joe Biden’s…
I first learned of Reverend Billy Talen and his Church of Stop Shopping in 2007, when my wife and I saw the docu-argumenta-comedy What Would…