Maybe we South Dakotans need to look to the Nebraska Legislature for examples of good sense. Not only did Nebraska repeal its death penalty, but…
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An eager reader helps me bounce not too far from Bartlett and Howie’s fact-free Christian exceptionalism to this Slate article about the willful ignorance of creationists. Columnist…
What do you do when you come in last in a statewide Republican primary? If you’re Jason Ravnsborg, you go looking for love online… …and in…
Uh oh—I’m going to have to get cranky with my anti-Common Core friends for trying to crash the Blue Ribbon party. South Dakotans Against Common…
We’ve seen numerous examples of how Jason Gant’s incompetence as Secretary of State cost this state in terms of electoral integrity and voting rights. Now…
Chamberlain just can’t get its high school seniors out the door without making someone mad. Managing to avoid any blow-up this year over its resistance to respecting Lakota culture…
The South Dakota Supreme Court threw out a drug-and-alcohol conviction this week on an interesting search-and-seizure point. On the evening of October 1, 2013, an unnamed individual…
I’m on the road in the other direction this weekend, but East River Democrats and Independents, if you need another reason to go to the…
Senator Ernie Chambers tried 37 times during his 41 years in the Nebraska Legislature to repeal his state’s death penalty. This week, on try #38, he succeeded.…