Governor Dennis Daugaard successfully outperforms my budget projection from a week ago and announces that South Dakota underbudgeted K-12 education by $16.9 million: State agencies demonstrated…
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In an apparent effort to make life harder for farmers and poor eaters, the Sonny Perdue USDA has made a strange contracting decision that will…
Patrick Lalley digs the Maria Butina story. He invited me on KSOO Radio this afternoon for a full segment on the arrested Russian agent, her…
Predictably, Pat Powers responds to the spectacle of Dusty Johnson’s allowing Republican operative Paul Erickson to bring a Russian agent to speak to his Teenage…
The Republican spin blog is too busy to cover the connections of arrested Russian agent Maria Butina to the South Dakota Republican establishment… partly, I…
We will not get to vote on a prescription drug price cap this fall. On Monday afternoon, Judge Patricia Devaney ruled that the petition for…
Making Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk a Catholic saint takes another step forward this month as a Vatican official comes to Rapid City to…
Senator M. Michael Rounds issued this statement yesterday the disastrous Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki. Strangely, he mentions neither Trump nor Putin by name: Make no…
Maria Butina makes my blogging day. No, the Russian gun advocate didn’t drop by for a podcast (although, Ms. Butina, if you visit South Dakota,…
Governor Dennis Daugaard isn’t doing any better at offering a coherent political response to the Trump tariffs than his pal Dusty Johnson. At last week’s…