Full disclosure: my household receives a pastor’s salary and housing allowance. The Democratic caucus usually writes much better bills than its Republican counterparts in the…
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Campaign finance reports are finally in from all ballot questions committees that circulated petitions in 2019. Let’s compare the successful petition drives with my own…
Trumpists appear determined to undo all efforts at good parenting. I have taught my daughter to pick up her trash, recycle when possible, and not…
Governor Kristi Noem had Game Fish and Parks spend money on a Virginia company to conduct a survey to determine the effectiveness of her Nest…
Tory Schalkle, the great-great grandson of one of the men who brought pheasants to Redfield 111 years ago, Henry J. Schalkle, writes from Minnesota to…
Republicans now have two primaries, with two West River women each trying to unseat the incumbent city-slicker pols currently doing Trump’s bidding in Washington. While…
If we could put videos on picket signs, protestors at today’s equality rally (Sioux Falls, Nelson Park, 12:30 CDT) would want to march with this…
Gregory County cartoonist Jo Johnson offers this lovely visual representation of the cost of wanton disregard of First Amendment rights in the ballot question process:…
The Legislature managed to pass three bills through both chambers in January, and remarkably, none of them are awful. Two of the three fast-passers are…