In his opening comments at Saturday’s crackerbarrel, Senator Al Novstrup said something about the alternative to having “dumb bills” in the Legislature is resorting to…
Category: South Dakota
Rookie Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) continues to insist that liberal blog Dakota Free Press plays a vital role in civic education: In his wide-ranging opening comments…
House Bill 1094, the unnecessary and possibly unconstitutional proposal to make South Dakotans get approval from the Secretary of State before exercising their First Amendment…
Four of the five legislators at Aberdeen’s final 2019 crackerbarrel yesterday expressed unequivocal support for the bills legalizing industrial hemp in South Dakota—House Bill 1191 on…
In his opening remarks to the final 2019 Aberdeen crackerbarrel yesterday, Senator Al Novstrup vaguely explained that the conservative campaign to muzzle liberals with their…
In openers at yesterday’s final 2019 Aberdeen crackerbarrel, rookie Representative Kaleb Weis (R-3/Aberdeen) showed himself not to be a complete blithering idiot. He opened with…
Amidst a lull in audience questions at today’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel, I took the mic after a question about abolishing the federal Department of Education (no,…
Hey, Jason Ravnsborg! Let’s go to court! This afternoon, Rapid City attorney James Leach filed on my behalf a complaint against the State of South Dakota,…
Correction 17:21 CST: Holy cow! I misread the bill! On first read, I thought Section 1 of SB 179 applied to agticultural property taxes. Incorrect! It…