South Dakota’s state parks charge all users the same fees: $8 to enter a state park, $4 to hike or bike the Mickelson Trail, $36…
Month: February 2021
With great regret, I come before you duly chastised by the SDGOP spin blog for not reading enough campaign finance reports. Yesterday I noted that…
In 2018, Senator Jim Bolin tried to hamstring our power to write our own laws by placing on the ballot Amendment X, which would have…
Rosebud Sioux Tribe member and Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) recognizes the obvious: South Dakota lawmakers don’t know enough about Lakota culture. To address his oppressors’…
Three years ago, Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) won passage of legislation to protect Lakota students’ right to wear Native regalia at school ceremonies. This year…
Senator Al Novstrup doesn’t want to follow the rules to protect the public from coronavirus; but at least he’s willing to make a small rule…
Speaking of cash flow, Kristi Noem spent nearly $826,000 out of her campaign war chest in a year when she wasn’t on the ballot. Thanks…
Senator John Thune has some reason to cry about venture capital’s preference for California, New York, and Massachusetts over South Dakota. A new report from…
A couple months ago, Sanford Hospital CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft informed his employees that he’d recovered from covid-19 and thus didn’t have to wear a mask:…