Governor Kristi Noem must have had her musical chairs all planned out. After ejecting Interim-after-all Secretary Ben Jones from the Department of Education to go…
Category: South Dakota
In October 2019, Sanford Health agreed to pay the federal government $20,250,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged Sanford had defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare,…
Sanford Health’s new CEO, Bill Gassen, is a registered Republican and a big-dollar donor to Governor Kristi Noem, but Gassen says masks help prevent coronavirus…
Usually I write my Thanksgiving morning blog posts from my in-laws’ den in Lincoln, Nebraska. Not this pandemic year. Here’s what we’re missing and what…
South Dakotans cast 219,074 absentee ballots in the 2020 general election, more than twice the number cast early in the 2016 general election. More than…
In a commentary this morning on MSNBC, Tom Brokaw says that South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck saved many lives during the influenza epidemic of 1918…
As the biggest petition nerd in South Dakota, I’m embarrassed not to have noticed sooner the third initiative proposal posted to the Secretary of State’s…
Representatives-Elect Will Mortenson and Erin Tobin won’t be the only legislators wearing masks in Pierre during Session. Bob Mercer reports that the Legislative leaders are…
Perhaps recognizing that challenging Amendment A, South Dakota’s marijuana legalization, via an election contest will go nowhere in court, anti-pot plaintiffs Kevin Thom and Rick…
Wow—after Sanford Health CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft brazenly kicked the legs out from under his organization’s pledge to promote mask-wearing to fight coronavirus in South Dakota…