The Displaced Plainsman graces us this Sunday with a link-rich indictment of evangelical support for Donald Trump. My friend from Yankton ties together Scripture and secular philosophy…
Category: South Dakota
Jodi Schwan talks with retiring Sioux Falls Development Foundation workforce development specialist Mary Medema about what it takes to meet the demand for labor in Sioux…
Pat Powers eagerly reprints Sheldon Osborn’s political commentary from Drinking Liberally when Democrat Osborn criticizes the South Dakota Democratic Party. But when Pat starts his own pathetic revisionist crawl toward Trumpism over the…
Democrats have a ballot slot to fill in District 19. Surprisingly, it’s not the Senate seat, where political newcomer Russell Graeff faces a tough battle against…
Aberdeen’s Dana Randall, delegate to the thankfully concluded Republican National Convention, must have been infected with Donald Trump’s inability to admit when he’s wrong. He tells Victoria Lusk that…
In his only use of the word compromise in his acceptance speech last night, Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump said “we must immediately suspend immigration from…
I listened to a complete Donald Trump speech for the first time last night. I heard nothing to convince me that Republicans really have nominated someone…
That Sioux Falls paper has finally gotten around to running a version of my July 1 response to Rep. Leslie Heinemann’s myth-making on Medicaid expansion. The…
Jay Pond ran for State House as Democrat in District 35 in 2012. Now he’s leading the charge to place Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein…
Far more common than “Vote your conscience” as a refrain at the Republican National Convention is “Hillary Clinton doesn’t believe in borders” (see Scott, Ingraham,…