Our new Attorney General may be a bigger idiot than Donald Trump, but at least we have the American Civil Liberties Union to talk sense…
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Do you think welfare should include work requirements? Then go talk to Tru Shrimp. The Balaton, Minnesota, company got $2.6 million in government assistance and…
Governor Kristi Noem addressed the South Dakota Legislature this afternoon. Several of her words deserve highlighting. (All quotes come from the transcript Governor Noem provided…
Remember how three out of four political parties (Dems, Libs, Cons) in South Dakota flunked conventioneering in 2018? I saw an early bill in the hopper…
Dang it: if Governor Noem would quit hiring kin, I would get to blogging more bills! The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is…
Senate Bill 39, Senator Stace Nelson’s anti-nepotism bill, is a great idea. Alas, it doesn’t declare an emergency, and it gives Kristi Noem and her…
The Koch Brothers are probably going to sue to overturn Initiated Measure 24, G. Mark Mickelson’s ban on out-of-state money in ballot question campaigns. As I…
Federal government fully open yet? No? O.K.: As your next Governor, I promise to build a wall… separating state government from women and their doctors.…
When the Legislature’s Executive Board drafted its plan to raise legislator pay and peg it to one fifth of median household income, we estimated that…