Dang it: if Governor Noem would quit hiring kin, I would get to blogging more bills! The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is…
Category: South Dakota
Senate Bill 39, Senator Stace Nelson’s anti-nepotism bill, is a great idea. Alas, it doesn’t declare an emergency, and it gives Kristi Noem and her…
The Koch Brothers are probably going to sue to overturn Initiated Measure 24, G. Mark Mickelson’s ban on out-of-state money in ballot question campaigns. As I…
Federal government fully open yet? No? O.K.: As your next Governor, I promise to build a wall… separating state government from women and their doctors.…
When the Legislature’s Executive Board drafted its plan to raise legislator pay and peg it to one fifth of median household income, we estimated that…
Speaking of intraparty opposition, Ann Tornberg faces a challenger in her bid to remain boss of the South Dakota Democratic Party. John Cunningham of Sioux…
Happy inauguration, says Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) as he rounds up the Republican wing of the South Dakota Republican Party to blast Governor Kristi Noem’s…
When even the Democrat-on-Democrat violence of the Pourier/Foster residency fake-fracas inspires zero chortling from the SDGOP spin machine (which is too busy converting its pants…