When Dollar Loan Center reopened in Sioux Falls and Rapid City in July to offer shady one-week loans, I was worried that payday predator Chuck…
Category: South Dakota
Yesterday I mentioned draft legislation the state Board of Elections will consider later this month to decertify Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) devices for South Dakota’s…
Speaking of improper use of police resources, the Mitchell mayor Jerry Toomey has decided, without council discussion or approval, to deploy a city cop to…
Melissa Mentele has enough to worry about with getting her three initiative petitions signed and submitted by November 6. She doesn’t need any legal or…
Aberdeen Central’s 2017 graduates knocked down our local ACT average. Aberdeen’s composite ACT score dropped from a 22.0 average in 2016 to 21.2 in 2017.…
Petition challenges during the past couple of election cycles have gone nowhere in the Secretary of State’s office, largely because our Secretaries of State have…
The South Dakota Board of Elections is poised to give more love to third parties and less love to Russian hackers and electronic voting machines.…
Joe Kirby, De Knudson, Chuck Parkinson, and friends are finally circulating their initiative petition to create open primaries in South Dakota. They got the Attorney…
I like the Stace Nelson/Gordon Howie/Lora Hubbel wing of the South Dakota Republican Party. I keep hoping they’ll get serious and run a viable statewide…