Representative Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) wasted more of the Legislature’s time this week with House Concurrent Resolution 6012, a restatement of the obvious fact of…
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I hear there’s some story in the papers about some local South Dakota high school sport player, whose name makes clear his immigrant origins, who…
Pat Powers has been trying to manufacture a story out of the fact that his party’s golden boy, Republican Alex Jensen, has been raising lots…
If California entrepreneurs can turn CAFO crap into energy, then the hoghouse of Senate Bill 179 must have some real power potential. (Sorry—the Legislature inspires…
Poop is power, says California’s Brightmark Energy, which plans to come from San Francisco to South Dakota to turn factory feedlot manure into natural gas:…
Just when we think the Legislature has come to its senses, it proves us wrong. After voting last week 30–33 to throw away Senate Bill…
Gregory-area rancher Nancy Johnson Wirsing wrote last month about the apparent journalistic tilt toward pro-CAFO corporate propaganda. This month she writes about the hazards of…
As your next Governor, I vow to repeal the school sentinel program and make it illegal for anyone other than a uniformed law enforcement officer…
I want to write about Representative Kelly Sullivan’s (D-13/Sioux Falls) body-piercing bill, but alas! House Bill 1289 so far has no body to pierce. It…
Representative Caleb Finck (R-21/Tripp) proposes House Bill 1284, which would do two things the Legislature is loath to do: repeal sales tax exemptions and give…