My Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) disappoints me by joining a majority of his Republican redistricting colleagues in voting not to let us mere civilians touch…
Month: August 2021
Some guy from Texas who vocally opposed mask and coronavirus vaccine mandates died of covid last week… and his wife has the gall to put up…
Bart Pfankuch of South Dakota News Watch goes looking for science showing that Governor Kristi Noem’s vaunted Nest Predator Bounty Program is boosting our pheasant…
Jason Ravnsborg is evidently incorrigible. KSFY’s Austin Goss reports that four days before Ravnsborg formally pled guilty to two traffic misdemeanors to avoid jail time for…
Guess who just beat Kristi Noem and Jason Ravnsborg in court again? South Dakota required citizens to submit petitions for statewide initiated laws a full…
South Dakota’s ag-industrial complex doesn’t cotton (corn? bean?) to hearing that agriculture generates only 5.78% of South Dakota’s gross domestic product. They thus feel compelled…
The Legislature’s House and Senate Redistricting Committees get to work today drawing the district maps that will serve their partisan interests for the next ten…
Ending pandemic unemployment benefits early was supposed to make people go back to work faster, said Kristi Noem and other mostly Republican pandemic deniers. …
Last month, Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) urged South Dakota college students to lobby their legislators to allow guns on campus so they can protect…
South Dakota News Watch catches up with my notes on the happy face South Dakota state government is trying to put on the long-declining pheasant-hunting industry.…