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As I did when I asked for your financial support last summer, permit me to list some of the original blogging I pounded out for you over the last several weeks. These articles dig into primary sources and offer unique analysis and commentary, mostly about politics, economics, and life in South Dakota:
- Oct 2: Freedom Caucus Just Like Kristi and SDGOP: Focused on Vague National Agenda Instead of South Dakota Issues
- Oct 3: If Food Tax Is Bad for State, Isn’t It Just as Bad for Cities?
- Oct 3: Ex Ante Facto: Slaughterhouse Opponents Try Applying Law Before It Is Enacted
- Oct 4: Palm Beach Car Dealers Host Noem Fundraiser at Glitzy Seaside Mansion October 14
- Oct 6: Noem Family Wedding in Arizona Friday—State Business, Surely.
- Oct 7: Noem Says Smith Getting $10M from National Democratic Establishment
- Oct 7: Initiative Opponents Outraising Slaughterhouse Opponents in Sioux Falls
- Oct 9: South Dakota Not Breaking Visitor Records
- Oct 12: SDSU Poll: Noem Leads Smith 45%–41%. Morning Consult: 57% Approve of Noem’s Performance.
- Oct 13: SDSU Poll: South Dakotans Oppose Current Abortion Ban, Might Support Restoring First-Trimester Access
- Oct 13: Schoenbeck Lying? Noem Campaign Still Insists She Supported Food Tax Repeal That Senate GOP Killed in March
- Oct 14: Minnesota Tourism Industry Pays Pretty Well; Most Bar/Restaurant Workers Clearing $15/Hour
- Oct 17: Florida Firm Polls South Dakota Phones on Messages Affecting Smith/Noem Race
- Oct 19: Janklow, Daugaard, Noem All Looked for More Things to Tax
- Oct 20: IM 27 Alone Won’t Authorize Marijuana Sales or Boost Sales Tax
- Oct 21: DSU History and Ethics Forum Hosts Wilson Speech on Recruiting Tech Workers
- Oct 23: LRC: Food Tax Repeal Will Cost $119.1 Million
- Oct 25: Contrary to Moore/AFP Claim, Medicaid Expansion Doesn’t Force People Off Private Insurance
- Oct 25: Smith Treasurer Fails to Provide Addresses for 1500+ Big Donors, Has Seven Days to Rectify Gross Error
- Oct 26: Vargo Wrong: Initiatives to Prohibit Food Tax Do Not Affect Municipalities
- Oct 26: Smith Swiftly Corrects Campaign Finance Report; Noem Has Had to Fix Filings 13 Times
- Oct 28: Daugaard, Presentation Sisters Spend Money to Fight Marijuana Inc.
- Oct 31: Legislators Insufficiently Enthusiastic About Cutting Food Tax to Call Special Session
- Oct 31: Slaughterhouse Opponents Misuse Language; Wholestone Farms Opens Butcher Shop
- Oct 31: Codify Roe v. Wade: Petition Drive Starts Saturday in Sioux Falls!
- Nov 2: SB 180 Still Unconstitutional, Still Dead—Eighth Circuit Agrees State Can’t Make Paid Petition Circulators Register Before Collecting Signatures
- Nov 3: District 14 House Candidate Gets Free Publicity from First National Bank
- Nov 3: Koskan Accused of Raping Daughter for Years
- Nov 4: Hillsdale Standards Crowd South Dakota Agriculture Out of Fourth-Grade Social Studies
- Nov 5: Caalim Fails to File Campaign Finance Report; GOP Silent on Noncompliance of Friendly Committee
- Nov 5: Before Incest Charge, Koskan Slacked Off on Campaign Fundraising; GOP Senators Sent $10K Week Before Charges Made Headlines
- Nov 7: $1.1M from Poet Means Jeff Broin Paying for 87% of Anti-Slaughterhouse Campaign
- Nov 7: Cool Cash: Democrat Outspending Election Denier in Secretary of State Campaign, Relying Heavily on His Own Cash
- Nov 9: Amendment D: South Dakotans Approve Medicaid Expansion 56% to 44%
- Nov 9: IM 27: Voters Reject Recreational Marijuana—47% For, 53% Against
- Nov 9: Democrats Gain One Senate Seat, Lose One House Seat, Maintain 11-Member Caucus in 105-Seat Legislature
- Nov 9: Fitzgerald Wins Fourth Circuit Judge Election; Ravnsborg’s Pal Natvig Just Can’t Get Government Work
- Nov 10: Vargo Ignores Public Comment, Leaves Erroneous Explanations of Food Tax Repeal Initiative Unchanged
- Nov 10: Four Years of Misconduct Win Noem 44,000 More Votes
- Nov 10: Noem More Popular Than Marijuana and Medicaid But Less Popular Than Jackley, Johnson, Thune, Nelson, and Haeder
- Nov 11: Five Republican Senators Win More Than 60% of District Votes; Democratic Senators All in 50s
- Nov 11: Freedom Caucus Lies About Medicaid Expansion, Leaves Solutions and Leadership to Other Republicans
- Nov 13: SDSU Survey Finds Plenty of Nurses Not Vaccinating Their Kids for Coronavirus
- Nov 14: Initiatives, Referenda, Republicans, Independents Need More Signatures to Make Ballot; Democrats Need Fewer!
- Nov 21: South Dakota Sees Highest Rent Increase in Nation in October
- Nov 22: Opponents to Hillsdale Standards Outnumber Proponents at Second Hearing; Noem’s Reëlection Portends Board Rubber Stamp?
- Nov 23: Comparison for Koskan Incest Case: Man Who Raped Half-Sister Got 25 Years in Prison
- Nov 23: Fitzgerald Apparently Hard on Child Rapists in Closing Arguments
- Nov 28: Koskan Refunds All 2022 Campaign Contributions, Zeroes Campaign Account
- Nov 28: Supreme Court Names Committee of Lawyers to Review SD Bar Exam; Partner Orgs Support Critical Race Theory?
- Nov 29: Goodwin Casts Medicaid Expansion and Food-Tax Repeal as Either/Or
- Nov 29: Dakotans for Health Submits Revised Initiative Language to Repeal Food Tax; Vargo’s Error Delays Petitioning Four Months
- Dec 1: Kirby, Knudson, and Friends Submit Open-Primary Amendment
- Dec 1: GOAC Would Like to Issue Subpoenas Without Asking Executive Board’s Permission
- Dec 5: Moron Lobby: Wiik Cries Feckless Greek Slogan While Losing Second Amendment Debate
- Dec 5: Christian “Artist” Sues to Deny Service… to Customers Who Will Never Come?
- Dec 7: Is Silence Complicity? (A Meditation for a Reader with a Fussy Email Server)
- Dec 8: Is Silence Complicity? (A Meditation for a Reader with a Fussy Email Server)
- Dec 8: Noem Growing State Budget and Dependence on Federal Money
- Dec 9: Noem’s Own Stats Don’t Support “Strongest State in America” Claim
- Dec 14: Sioux Empire Fairgrounds Study Income Data Show South Dakota Economy Not Strongest in Nation
- Dec 14: W.H. Lyons Fairgrounds Upgrade Means More Money for Sioux Falls and State Government, Less Profit for Minnehaha County
- Dec 14: Majority of Christians Think Jesus Was Just a Good Teacher, Not Divine
- Dec 16: Supreme Court: Written Contracts Matter
- Dec 18: Daughter Tells Cops Mom May Be Drunk; Court Says Tip Justifies Search and Seizure
- Dec 18: Minnesota Banker Leavens Portents of Economic Doom with Funny Slides
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