South Dakota’s legislators are doing their part in the nationwide Republican war on voting rights. In their ongoing effort to let fewer voices be heard…
Month: February 2021
Amendment A is toast, for now. Sixth Circuit Judge Christina Klinger yesterday nullified South Dakotans’ vote to write recreational marijuana, industrial hemp, and the regulation…
Representatives Chris Karr (R-11/Sioux Falls) and Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) have both tested positive for coronavirus. Both appear maskless at the Capitol in the recent photo…
An eager reader turns my attention to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Covid-19 Nursing Home Dataset, and I get to spend my waking…
I messed up again. Yesterday I wrote that Senator Al Novstrup had shown some civic responsibility in following the Board of Regents rules for wearing…
Amidst the outbreak of freewheeling spending in our cash-flush Capitol, my favorite bill of the 2021 Session is House Bill 1278, wherein we declare that…
The South Dakota House of Representatives Friday saved truly small farmers from facing a big tax increase. House Bill 1085 tinkers with the criteria for…
Axios notes that someone is laundering a lot of political cash through a downtown law office in Sioux Falls. The meaninglessly and Google-defyingly named Custom…
Well, ignorant Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) isn’t completely incorrigible. After violating Board of Regents rules and speechifying without a mask at Northern State University last…
In another sign that America has a real President again (I’m starting to believe the Trump Administration was a hoax), President Joe Biden revived the…