Pat Powers is told by his sponsors to portray the proposal of the bipartisan South Dakotans for Ethics Reform to create “Democracy Credits” to publicly fund South…
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Canada went Bizarro-Bush last night by electing a majority-Liberal government and replacing Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Justin Trudeau, son of 1970s–1980s PM Pierre Trudeau.…
South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch thinks the Trans-Pacific Partnership will help South Dakota farmers by further opening foreign markets for our ag exports. Ag columnist…
Two eager readers provide a serendipitous juxtaposition of articles on handouts. A Republican friend sends me Matt Bruenig’s “Case Against Free College” from the New Republic. Supposing and…
Then again, sometimes talk at the local level isn’t enough to ensure fair treatment of American Indians. Last year, American Indian advocates reached a favorable settlement of the Wandering…
While our Governor waits for someone else to pay for Medicaid expansion and lets a useful social service program die, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shows us how…
I remain a Bernie Sanders guy, but should Vice-President Joe Biden decide to run for President, he earned himself ten more points against any GOP challenger with these…
I’m finally getting through Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century. Among other enlightening points, Piketty notes in his fourteenth chapter that the increase in the share of national wealth held…
Could Bernie Sanders be affecting Hillary Clinton’s campaigning? Asked whether she would back the Keystone XL pipeline, the Democratic frontrunner didn’t think she needed to answer that question until January 2017.…
Texas A&M reports that the majority of America’s dairy workers are immigrants: Nearly 77,000 immigrants worked on dairy farms in 2014 out of about 150,000 employees nationwide, according to a…