Spring abounds with irony: Brookings malcontent Pat Powers gripes about my candidacy for the Aberdeen City Council. (By the way, we drew ballot position this morning: I…
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With our referendum drive on Senate Bills 69 and 177 well underway, the Secretary of State finally publishes the official guide to circulating statewide ballot…
I’ve written up my interview with Rapid City candidate for mayor Steve Allender. Now let’s yield the floor so he can offer his own words…
You’d think unchecked power would have more appeal. Senate Majority Leader Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic) and Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) commanded a Republican…
Two men are running for Rapid City Mayor: two-term incumbent Sam Kooiker and his former police chief Steve Allender. Allender “retired” from the Rapid City Police…
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission actually cut Keystone XL opponents a break yesterday. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe told the PUC that TransCanada has been dragging its…
NPR’s Laura Sullivan is back on the South Dakota beat covering the ongoing Indian foster child scandal. Listening to NPR just now, I learned from Sullivan that federal…
You know, I thought the youth minimum wage might be the harder of the two referendum petition drives that we are starting today. But at least two…
Kea Warne from the Secretary of State’s office sends me an interesting update on petition law. Apparently, circulators can sign their own petitions! I was…
Governor Daugaard thinks we should tax amateur baseball coaches on the work they do for kids. To that end, he vetoed Senate Bill 159. Yesterday,…