I oppose active-shooter drills because teaching people to live in constant mortal fear of mass murder is no way to run a civilization… and it…
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A friend of the blog from Brookings County received a call purporting to be from Milbank yesterday evening. His phone flagged the number as likely…
I like engineering. I like the School of Mines. I like that South Dakota has a top-flight engineering school where really smart people learn to…
…and Wonders About Copyright Issues with Digitizing Law and Annotations! The Code Commission wasn’t as enthusiastic about the changes Code Counsel Wenzel Cummings proposed as…
The United States House of Representatives voted 354 to 60 yesterday to condemn the Executive Branch’s abandonment of our Kurdish allies in Syria. Every Democrat…
As another sign of how Republicans have throttled initiative process with excessive paperwork, the Secretary of State’s office is giving petition sponsors a warning that…
Donald Trump can’t get anything done. He was supposedly eager to promote work requirements for Medicaid. South Dakota applied to pilot just such a work…
Boy, don’t agitate the Worthington police. After pulling a brown guy from his car in a traffic stop and pounding him in 2017 (settlement: $60,000),…
Guns don’t kill fetuses; members of the insufficiently regulated militia kill fetuses: Public Information Officer Sam Clemens says the Sheldon Pettibone was cleaning a gun…
The Legislature’s Code Commission is up to some serious law-nerd business tomorrow. Check out the recommendations Code Counsel Wenzel J. Cummings of the Legislative Research…