Speaking of Presidential politics, the current Commander-in-Chief isn’t just keeping the seat warm until the next Democrat takes over leadership of the free world in 2017. Far from lame-ducking,…
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The New York Times reports that four state Democratic parties—New Hampshire, Mississippi, Virginia, and Wisconsin—have signed joint fundraising agreements with Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. South Dakota Democrats,…
The South Dakota Dashboard reminds legislators that Pierre really is responsible for South Dakota’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher salaries. Processing Census data for FY 2013, the Dashboard reports that South Dakota’s K-12 per-pupil spending…
Get that legislator a shoe cam and a Subway sandwich…. An interim committee of the South Dakota Legislature met last Wednesday to rehash questions about…
The GOP spin of Kevin Woster’s commentary last week was “Democrats can’t win” the 2016 Senate race against John Thune. Now busy reveling in the fact that…
My apologies to Seth Tupper: I didn’t catch his August 9 report on the difficulty of accessing South Dakota’s laws until my local paper ran it…
Hey, Blue Ribbon K-12 panel! I know the legislators among you are desperate to engineer any excuse you can get not to take the single most important…
Let’s be positive—here are a couple signs that the market may support New Angus/White Oak Global’s gambit to resurrect the bankrupt Northern Beef Packers slaughterhouse. The USDA reports that, as of August…
Ethan Marsland lived up to his early press and announced his candidacy for District 33 House yesterday. Rather than waiting for South Dakota Public Broadcasting to shoot its Legislative…
South Dakotans are having all sorts of fun circulating petitions for ballot measures this year. Petitioning would be even more fun and efficient if we adopted…