Both Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom and his public information officer turned Senator Helene Duhamel (R-32/Rapid City) oppose the two marijuana measures that have made…
Category: South Dakota
The Public Utilities Commission is giving NextEra a pass on its failure to install noise-reduction technology on wind-turbine blades at its Crowned Ridge Wind Farm…
Yankton County faces a secession movement from four townships making up the northeastern quarter-plus of the county. Continuing the farm-entitlement mindset, farmers in Mayfield, Turkey…
SDSU Extension has released a new online guide to Dakota and Lakota traditional games. I can find no explanation in that guide for the wasicu…
Amendment A, the marijuana initiative approved for our vote yesterday by Secretary Barnett, includes one annoying anti-libertarian, pro-corporate provision on growing marijuana. Section 4 Clause…
I’ve said many times I won’t exert myself heavily for or against marijuana policy. But now that we have to vote on two pot initiatives,…
Keep quiet about corruption, get a promotion—that’s the South Dakota way! Governor Kristi Noem announced today that she is promoting Rep. Kyle Schoenfish to take…
Apparently dissatisfied with Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg’s subpar performance in court, the Legislature’s Executive Board wants to hire its own lawyer to defend the state’s…
My friend and U.S. Senate candidate Dan Ahlers got an op-ed in that Sioux Falls paper over the Christmas break decrying the Trump Administration’s counterproductive…