I was going to advance the theory that, based on campaign finance reports, Rep. Patrick Kirschman is winning the fellas, while Dr. Reynold Nesiba is the ladies’ man. Former…
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Interestingly, it’s not Pat Powers but Scott Ehrisman who suggests that Scott Heidepriem’s representation of the American Indian students suing Mid-Central Educational Cooperative over the GEAR UP scandal…
I’m not even in the Senate yet, and I already have a bill in the chute. Over the Memorial Day weekend, I noticed that a seemingly innocuous…
The District 22 Democratic House primary is not a winner-take-all affair like the District 15 Democratic Senate primary, so we shouldn’t expect as much campaign finance…
Ah, Republicans, standing for fiscal conservatism, gun rights, family values… and giving state flag thieves second chances: Senator Deb Peters (R-9/Hartford), one of Governor Daugaard’s primary…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says the Medicaid math works: Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he’s convinced South Dakota can expand Medicaid without adding to state spending, but now…
On the same day that Republican nominee Donald Trump calls the political press “the most dishonest people I’ve ever met” in order to distract from…
Eight years in Pierre gives Rep. Patrick Kirschman another advantage over challenger Reynold Nesiba: fundraising. According to pre-primary campaign finance reports filed last week, Kirschman…
Remember how our Legislature passed stealth vouchers to give their insurance company pals tax breaks for laundering public money into private-school scholarships? Even if we set aside…
Saturday I noticed that the old stockyard along US 212 in Redfield has been turned into a staging area for construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. Mary Lou…