State Rep. Paula Hawks (D-9/Hartford) announces that she has scaled back her campaign for U.S. House during the last several weeks because of a family health issue.…
Category: South Dakota
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has certified the first of eight initiative petitions submitted at the beginning of November. Yesterday Secretary Krebs said Jason Glodt’s petition for the so-called…
The Human Rights Campaign has released its 2015 Municipal Equality Index, a measure of how well city policies and ordinances respect the LGBT residents. Since I…
New Angus, the inheritors of EB-5 boondoggle Northern Beef Packers here in Aberdeen, is counting on global demand for the kosher and halal DemKota-branded meats they are starting…
That Sioux Falls paper’s new political reporter decided to write a Sunday piece about the South Dakota Democratic Party. Dana Ferguson’s report included the following statements:…
…and gets contract amidst violation of open-meetings law. In my Friday report on Tom Oster’s Bollen-esque privatization of his public duty to help his employer, the Sioux…
Last week I discovered that Governor Dennis Daugaard has actually expanded South Dakota’s general fund expenditures faster than the national average and faster than his…
Ken Santema picks up South Dakota’s lone entry in the 2015 Wastebook, the project Arizona Senator Jeff Flake inherited from retired Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn to spotlight…
I’m not sure how one stages a coup at a public university, but if there’s a way, the vacancy of three top executive positions seems to…
The billions of dollars the Department of Agriculture credits to agriculture are magic math. South Dakota’s entire GDP is only $45.9 billion. Agriculture cannot generate 55% of…