The Senate’s surprise passage of House Bill 1217, the destructive and bullying ban on transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college…
Category: South Dakota
Want to stop the anti-transgender nonsense in Pierre? Call a Constitutional Convention. My thoughts on the matter of calling a Constitutional Convention started not with…
Amy Scott-Stoltz, president of the League of Women Voters, interviewed me last night to put together a helpful video for all South Dakotans who would…
Democrats in the Legislature are standing up against one of Governor Kristi Noem’s worst ideas, the burial by “merger” of the Department of Environment and…
South Dakota Republicans aren’t the only gun nuts who’ve been pushing bills to nullify federal laws regulating firearms. Republican legislators across the country are ignoring…
Senate Bill 143 was another attempt to end South Dakota’s exceptional and costly treatment of ingesting illegal drugs as a felony. Last month SB 143…
Longtime marijuana advocate and petitioner Emmett Reistroffer is trail-ballooning an initiative to give South Dakotans the ability to recall more elected officials. The only officials…
Maybe this event was in the works before Pam Cole’s job change, but the former Democratic Party exec may be out earning her money as…
Pat Powers provides an excellent example of spin by ellipsis as he takes a gratuitous swipe at the best darn university in South Dakota. Powers…
I haven’t had much to say about the Legislature’s Democratic caucus this Session, since there aren’t enough of them to make much difference on the…