After reading my criticism yesterday of Republican gubernatorial candidate Steven Haugaard’s failure to capitalize on the Noem luxury-rugs-and-sauna story, a friend wrote, with a fiendish…
Category: South Dakota
Aberdeen is hoping to spend $334 million of mostly federal money to draw 44 million gallons of water a day from the Missouri River to…
Technical education is creeping toward the future. Next fall, Lake Area Technical College in Watertown will become South Dakota’s first school to offer training in…
Governor Kristi Noem and the press hand her primary challenger Steve Haugaard a perfect issue on which to skewer the Governor, her extravagant purchases of…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) has been a willing participant in the Republican war on initiatives. In 2016, he led the SDGOP campaign against Amendment V,…
A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…
We know that nepotist Kristi Noem lies like a rug. But if you go to the Governor’s mansion, you may get to see Kristi lie…
An eager reader asks for an update on Black Hills Energy’s plan to raise rates on folks who produce their own electricity at home. Some…
Representative Mark Willadsen (R-11/Sioux Falls) will need to change the name of his Legislative campaign committee, “Mark Willadsen for SD House of Representatives Dist. 11.”…