Given Governor Kristi Noem’s disagreement with both Senate President Pro-Tempore Lee Schoenbeck and Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch about where she stood on repealing…
Month: October 2022
University of Iowa hydroscientist and engineer Chris Jones says Iowa farmers enjoy a lot of mythmaking that smells more like corporate image-management than reflection of…
We’re still waiting for Kristi Noem to produce any witnesses who can back up her claim that she actually supported the food tax repeal last…
South Dakota has fewer people and a lower percentage of older people than Maine. Yet according to epidemiologist Dr. Bonny Specker, coronavirus has killed more…
When she adopted as her own campaign promise the longstanding Democratic proposal to repeal South Dakota’s unusual tax on food, Governor Kristi Noem said exempting…
I learned something new today: sunflowers can cause your tractor to catch fire! What started as a day of planting into sunflower stubble quickly turned…
As Republicans sue to stop the Biden Administration from handing out student loan relief, rural Republicans are staying curiously quiet about the Biden Administration’s handing…
…But Bong Sales Kosher! As one of my anonymous correspondents noted earlier this week, Initiated Measure 27 will not legalize the sale of marijuana in…
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader gets around to fact-checking Kristi Noem’s campaign squawking about Democratic candidate for governor Jamie Smith’s proposal to tax marijuana to make up…
Even the conservative Cato Institute agrees that Kristi Noem isn’t that great of a governor. In its 16th biennial Fiscal Policy Report Card grading governors’…