Let’s celebrate what’s good about America. Let’s celebrate honest, thoughtful, and selfless public service. Let us celebrate, in the President’s words, “a lion in American history”…
Author: Cory Allen Heidelberger
My racist neighbors’ noise about one brown person’s conviction for trying to grab a woman’s genitals got me wondering, as the father, whether I can offer my little girl…
According to some nifty clickable maps by the Kaiser Family Foundation, South Dakota had 24,600 enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace in 2016. That’s a few thousand more than…
Want to lose weight? Get out and walk… and tell your city planners to help: Just ask Mick Cornett, mayor of Oklahoma City, Okla., about the…
The headline on Dan Peters’s interview with Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) is that the Majority Leader wants to delay the implementation date of voter-approved ballot measures…
The Joint Legislative Procedure Committee voted 9–5 today to reject a rule barring legislators from having sex with pages and interns. Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) offered…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) throws the first belch of the radical right-wing caucus into the hopper with his fourth attempt to wedge his anti-science agenda into science…
Governor Dennis Daugaard reached for an awkward analogy yesterday to justify Republican legislators’ impending attack on our right to put initiatives and referenda on the ballot:…
Governor Dennis Daugaard called on the Legislature yesterday to repeal and replace Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act that voters approved in November. They have…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has fulfilled her promise to bring campaign finance reform measures to replace the voter-approved Initiated Measure 22. Yesterday the Secretary delivered two bills: Senate…