I said last week that House Bill 1048, which would increase the number of video lottery machines per establish, raise bets and prizes, and let a more-empowered state Lottery Commission keep…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Ah, sweet anarchy…. Hartford offers Libertarians and other chaoticians a brief exercise in the disappearance of government. Double-voting city councilman Doyle Johnson resigned last week following controversy over…
I told them not to do it. The GOP spin blog told them not to do it. But twenty legislators have done it: they have chosen to cave to…
South Dakota Democratic Party Vice-Chair returns with another essay on the need for Democrats to stand up with simple truth against the Republicans’ ceaseless malarkey. Last fall he…
—Knock knock! —Who’s there? —North American Title Loan. You been circulating petitions? In tonight’s odd petition story, a Rapid City friend who circulated the petition for the…
The newest officially filed candidate for Legislature is Travis Lasseter of New Underwood, seeking a District 30 House seat. He gathered some of his signatures at…
Republican pollster Glen Bolger has found stronger support for raising sales tax to raise teacher pay than this week’s liberal Dakota Free Press poll. Bolger’s Public…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is talking like a Democrat, and now Pat Powers is talking sense on multiple issues—have I slipped into an alternative universe? I noted Monday…
I’ll give Pat Powers a little credit: he appears to be realizing that reprinting press releases from his Republican sponsors adds no value to the South Dakota…
If the South Dakota Democratic Party hasn’t locked in a challenger against John Thune, may I nominate rancher and peace activist Marvin Kammerer? In a letter…