KELO-TV is crowing that their coverage of the GEAR UP scandal prompted lawmakers to propose tightening our state conflict-of-interest laws. Yeah, yeah, but have you and your…
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Last month Governor Dennis Daugaard said the apparent corruption in the GEAR UP program administered by the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative for the state was “ridiculous.” Evidently sick…
Our ballot measures stop at ten—medical marijuana doesn’t make the cut! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs and her team finally finished reviewing the medical marijuana petition…
A little like me, Senator Bernie Sanders stands outside America’s Christian mainstream. Sanders is Jewish; I am an atheist (although I’ve been told occasionally that I look like a rabbi). Like me, Senator…
What’s another way to fight corruption in South Dakota? Support unions. Beleaguered employees at the South Dakota Developmental Center in Redfield may pursue unionization to better…
My Republican friend John Tsitrian threads an interesting political needle in the Rapid City Journal. He says he supports the intent of House Bill 1067, the…
KSOO’s Independent radio host Rick Knobe continues to urge the Legislature to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay. He said last November that he wasn’t terribly impressed with the…
Jeepers creepers! Select Management Resources, parent company of North American Title Loans, spends $1,735,416.90, including $1,553,405.58 on deceptive petition circulating company Silver Bullet, to trick South Dakotans…
I’m not sure if House Bill 1165 is a sneak attack or a snark attack from the Religious Right, but Rep. Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls)…
With the faux-family values crowd in Pierre, it’s hard to tell if we’re in the 1950s or 1984. The radical religious right who mistake the Legislature…