The real 36% rate cap on payday loans is on the 2016 ballot! Cap the Rate SD informs me that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs…
Dakota Free Press Posts
It’s hard to tell where USD hires its proofreaders. Jill Callison caught USD’s marketing department committing this roadside assault on apostrophes: Dakota’s… Dakota’s what? The…
Sensible Republican blogger (the terms are not mutually exclusive) John Tsitrian says it’s crazy that South Dakota doesn’t have an income tax and it’s crazy…
Perhaps in the “no news is good news department,” the scandal-rocked Mid-Central Educational Cooperative board met for three hours in executive session on December 17, apparently…
House Bill 1001 would pull South Dakota out of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, a non-profit formed in 1991 to help postsecondary institutions from the Dakotas to Missouri…
I’m reading a book by John Rawls called Political Liberalism [Columbia University Press, 1996]. The introduction offers this neat summary of the primary question we politicians (and…
Rep. Kristi Noem is part of new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s special eight-member advisory panel. She’s also bunking with him on Capitol Hill:…
The data-based and hence attention-worthy FiveThirtyEight posts charts on what it calls the “Endorsement Primary,” tallies of endorsements of the Presidential candidates by governors and members of…
When Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) first floated his potty bill last month, I noted the principles behind Rep. Deutsch’s urgent need to ban transgender students from the…
Fred Deutsch’s potty bill is one expression of the Christian right’s persecution complex, their sure sense that they are fighting evildoers (in this case, those darned transgender children who don’t respect…