We just can’t have any fun any more. The Aberdeen Optimist Club opens the Haunted Forest at Wylie Park this Friday and Saturday, but the terror will only…
Category: South Dakota
A nickel last time, a dime this time: the Department of Labor has announced that South Dakota’s minimum wage will rise to $8.65 an hour on January…
A friend forwards me the ballot question recommendations of the women of Democracy in Action in Rapid City. It turns out that, as with NARAL Pro-Choice SD,…
The Class Act of the Week is Democratic Senator Jim Peterson (D-4/Revillo). Senator Peterson proposed Senate Bill 136 this year to incentivize grassy buffer strips…
KSFY dispatches its Aberdeen bureau to cover the riveting District 3 Senate race! Alas, Mondesir mispastes my statement on corruption to Initiated Measure 22. The clip…
I just spent twelve minutes listening to the podcast of Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) stammering through his Monday interview with Greg Belfrage about Referred Law 20,…
The Watertown Public Opinion and I have our points of disagreement on the ballot measures, but NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota lines up with me perfectly: (Review…
Maybe newspapers just see the chance to sell more ads during the primary season. The Mitchell Daily Republic has company in endorsing Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary…
Democratic candidate for U.S. House Rep. Paula Hawks led off last night’s televised debate by revealing that she was a victim of sexual assault by…
Yesterday I noted retired counselor Karen Miller’s argument that Amendment S, the purported crime victims bill of rights, actually invades crime victims’ privacy by expanding the definition of…