The Joint Appropriations Committee is at least trying to solve some real problems. Their House Bill 1281 would put $10,000,000 into a new state brittle database…
Month: February 2021
Another black mark of Trumpism was erased yesterday as the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service issued its Agricultural Labor Survey. Last September, the Sonny Perdue…
Say, why don’t we take that $350-million surplus that Governor Noem has fabricated from our federal coronavirus relief dollars and do something good for South…
Speaking of disempowerment by Executive pressure, Mayor Steve Allender of Rapid City sounds unhappy with the state government’s ongoing effort to usurp local control. On Twitter…
In an NBC report on the factors behind North Dakota’s and South Dakota’s declining coronavirus rates (primarily, a critical mass of people seeing friends and…
While South Dakota prepares to sock coronavirus relief dollars away in the bank to fund future parochial non-pandemic budget whims, the Biden Administration and the…
Making clear that they have no intention of respecting the will of the voters, not to mention that the initiative process is insufficient to check…
In more edge-nattering, Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) last week proposed House Bill 1221, which would spend $750,000 to plop statues of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,…
Say, here’s a wrinkle I didn’t notice on my first pass through House Joint Resolution 5003, Representative Jon Hansen’s latest chipping-away at our initiative rights.…
Governor Kristi Noem has done a remarkable job of not spending federal coronavirus relief dollars on coronavirus relief. Now Representative Chris Karr, who came down…