In bigger government news, while Kristi Noem told us she didn’t want government to have more power, she signed Senate Bill 25, the Department of…
Category: South Dakota
Did you know Majority Leader Lee Qualm (R-21/Platte) proposed giving more tax dollars to private schools? Representative Qualm’s House Bill 1227 would have directed the Secretary…
Build a wall that won’t work for an emergency that doesn’t exist, or build infrastructure that would work for an emergency that does exist on…
South Dakota isn’t ready for hemp, Governor Kristi Noem said in her illogical, still inexplicable justifications for vetoing of two industrial hemp bills this month. Funny…
I plan to refer House Bill 1094 to a public vote. HB 1094 is Rep. Jon Hansen’s unconstitutional plan to force ballot question petitioners to…
Randy Seiler didn’t come to Oacoma Saturday looking for another job. He’s got plenty to do: in his “retirement” from the U.S. Attorney’s office, he…
Democrats from 33 counties elected Paula Hawks as their new South Dakota Democratic Party chair and Randy Seiler as their new vice-chair yesterday at their…
I take a moment before hitting the road this morning to summarize the rest of my 2,800 words of notes from Wednesday’s forum for candidates…
My prediction that Tony Venhuizen was in the chute to become our permanent Secretary of Education turns out to be wishful thinking. Instead of remaining…
As I said over lunch, I’m not running for Democratic party chair. I can’t even vote for party chair. But I’m going to Oacoma tomorrow…