A lot of hogwash was hollered in House Health and Human Services last week as Rep. Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) and his yackadoodle friends grandstood…
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While anti-government right-winger Rep. Steven Haugaard proposes big-government intrusion in family affairs, pragmatic Democratic House Minority Leader Jamie Smith proposes state government intervention in the…
The war on initiative and referendum continues, and Republicans are winning. Senate Bill 77: Thinking Go Big or Go Home, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) upped his…
As we’ve learned from Reagan to Thune and Janklow to Noem, Republicans only hate big government when they are campaigning; once they are in power,…
It’s bad enough that the Legislature isn’t willing to cross the Governor and require that her Tribal Affairs Secretary occasionally report to the Legislature’s State-Tribal…
KELO-TV riffled through the recent records of Governor Kristi Noem’s travels and found no sign of political use of the state plane. Raw Story looked back…
When I beat Jason Ravnsborg in court last year and secured the defeat of 2019 House Bill 1094, the Attorney General didn’t roll over and…
Here’s another example of how Donald Trump’s own self-absorbed incompetence saved us from a totally oppressive regime over the last four years. Back in 2018,…
A lot of people—from Joe Boever’s cousins Nick and Victor Nemec, to the press, to the Governor herself—are wondering why it’s taking so long to…
As I look for signs of hope that sensible Republicans will find a primary candidate willing to topple Kristi Noem and end her rein of…