South Dakotans approved medical marijuana and recreational pot in one fell swoop Tuesday. The Snow Queen is not amused: I was personally opposed to these…
Month: November 2020
The stress of this election wears on even the best among us. I thought Gary Hanson, as a Public Utilities Commissioner, was one of the…
Back in July a friend and I debated the “cure worse than the disease” question: does restricting economic activity to control the coronavirus pandemic produce…
Donald Trump told us that “on November 4, you won’t hear about [covid-19] anymore.” While the vote count did dominate the news yesterday, coronavirus did…
The carnage of Republicans slaughtering Democrats went all the way down the ballot to this year’s county races. 31 of our 66 counties had races…
Minnehaha County is still counting ballots, but which of the remaining 65 counties in South Dakota are the most passionately Trumpistani, and which counties showed…
I’m guessing 43,000 ballots remain to be counted in Minnehaha County, the only jurisdiction in South Dakota not reporting complete results as of 7:30 this…
South Dakota Democrats suffered another devastating election, as Republicans dominated every called or callable race on the 2020 general election ballot. Note: our morning-after reporting…
Sure, choose not to lock down in response to coroanvirus, and you’ll have lower unemployment. You’ll also have more sickness and death: Five of the…
The continuing surge in coronavirus is forcing Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls to double up patients in ICU rooms: Chief Medical Officer Mike Elliott…