Last night’s peaceful Phillips Avenue march protesting the Alito Court’s overturning of women’s freedom was no riot. That was clear to anyone watching the event,…
Month: June 2022
Speaking of petitions, the League of Women Voters—both the South Dakota chapter and the national organization—and LWV members Susan Randall and Kathryn Fahey are suing…
[Disclosure: I work for Dakotans for Health. This blog post is written on my own time and dime.] Those South Dakotans marching up Phillips Avenue…
A whole lot of South Dakota ladies and some of their gentleman friends marched up and down Phillips Avenue in Sioux Falls yesterday evening telling…
“Safe Haven” laws, allowing women who’ve just given birth to surrender their newborns for adoption at hospitals, police stations, fire stations, or other places, were…
Mark Vargo follows through! The new Attorney General‘s first act in office is to clean out the cronies left by the impeached killer he prosecuted…
I was going to celebrate the announcement that DeSmet boosters would like to build a trail through the slough to isolated Laura Ingalls Wilder landmark…
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There’s at least one lawyer we can convince to come work in Pierre…. Holy cow—paint me wrong again! I thought that appointing Pennington County State’s…
The Legislature needs a lawyer. According to Legislative Executive Board chairman Senator Lee Schoenbeck, the E-Board’s second pick for the job of Legislative Research Council…