I need to get me a radio studio! Patrick Lalley invited me into his KSOO Sioux Falls studio for our first face-to-face conversation, and we…
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My neighbors at Aberdeen Roncalli rebuff some anti-abortion anti-vaxxers and stir up some complicated moral questions. Aberdeen’s private Catholic school says in my morning paper…
In the government-technology snafu of the month, if not the year, Brown County’s e-mail doesn’t work. Try to e-mail our commissioners, county fair officials, the…
Last night, lawyer Kennith Gosch of Aberdeen sent an e-mail to all 105 South Dakota legislators inviting them to Aberdeen on April 10 for the…
Shantel Krebs is playing the snake angle. In her latest campaign ad, instead of touting her brave 2016 rattler shooting (since her primary opponent Dusty…
Among other policy items Marty Jackley will tout during his gubernatorial campaign is his pushing of South Dakota’s new data breach notification law, Senate Bill…
In various peaceful public demonstrations here in Aberdeen, including the most recent march against gun violence organized by our Aberdeen High School Democrats, I have…
We can’t get the South Dakota Republican establishment to criticize Donald Trump for offering aid and comfort to white supremacists. But at least we can…
On March 23, Donald Trump pressed Play on his impulsive, destructive tariffs against Chinese steel and aluminum. Yesterday (Monday in China, so kinda-sorta today), the calm,…
Under our discussion of the 33 bills enacted immediately under “emergency” clauses, Donald Pay points out a glaring contradiction in the Legislature’s emergency placement of…