We all know that higher tobacco taxes reduce smoking. But the threat of tobacco taxes increase smoking… or at least the purchase of smokes? The…
Category: South Dakota
The surge in numerical voter turnout that appears to have been driven by the excitement generated by Billie Sutton’s failed campaign has one downside (for…
As expected, the man who will really be running the state under the Noem/Rhoden Adminstration is high-priced lobbyist and lawyer Matt McCaulley. Team Noem announces…
Hey, Sleepy Al! Here’s an idea for problem-solving legislation: maybe you could propose a bill to tighten up our motor vehicle registration laws so South…
If Tuesday’s election results stand, South Dakota’s Legislature will have four more women in the 2019 Session than it did in the 2018 Session. The…
I’ve dumped the county-by-county vote totals for our statewide ballot questions and candidates into a single spreadsheet and run some numbers. Beyond the fact that…
I can’t report this without giving my political detractors an opening to distract from the main issue by dinging me as a sore loser. But…
Seven years ago, DCI agent Dave Lunzman helped law enforcement officers gang up on fellow DCI agent Laura Zylstra Kaiser in retaliation for her daring…
The only people who had a worse election night than South Dakota Democrats were South Dakota Libertarians and independents. candidate Party Race votes total vote…
Democrat Bill Adamson thinks I’ve been thinking too much about his illegitimate and thus deservedly failed bid for District 7 House. Wait ’til he sees…