When Senator Susan Wismer (D-1/Britton) testifies to Senate State Affairs on behalf of Senate Bill 141, her proposal to make the Bobolink South Dakota’s official…
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I write a lot about the time-wasting culture-war bills that Republicans use to distract us from real problems and bully non-conforming minorities out of our…
In addition to promoting Breitbart bigotry and bad bill-writing, Representative Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) is helping Tom Pischke’s Angry Dad caucus take away no-fault divorces.…
…But let’s never get too optimistic about Republican legislators’ respect for basic human rights. Representative Tony Randolph (R-35/Rapid City) has wadded all of his caucus’s…
Back to good ideas from Democrats: Representative Kelly Sullivan (D-13/Sioux Falls) last week filed House Bill 1216, a measure to protect interns from workplace abuse.…
Full disclosure: my household receives a pastor’s salary and housing allowance. The Democratic caucus usually writes much better bills than its Republican counterparts in the…
Campaign finance reports are finally in from all ballot questions committees that circulated petitions in 2019. Let’s compare the successful petition drives with my own…
Trumpists appear determined to undo all efforts at good parenting. I have taught my daughter to pick up her trash, recycle when possible, and not…
Governor Kristi Noem had Game Fish and Parks spend money on a Virginia company to conduct a survey to determine the effectiveness of her Nest…
Tory Schalkle, the great-great grandson of one of the men who brought pheasants to Redfield 111 years ago, Henry J. Schalkle, writes from Minnesota to…