Amidst the flood of new proposals pooped out by the Legislature’s Executive Board yesterday is a plan to have lawmakers give a “State of the…
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Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton took questions at yesterday’s Brown County Democratic Forum. What was on voters’ minds? Redistricting: Asked what impact holding the governor’s…
I heard another good speech by Senator Billie Sutton yesterday. Our Democratic candidate for governor told a capacity crowd (46, by my count) at the…
I wanted to talk positively about Meade superintendent Don Kirkegaard’s appointment as Melody Schopp’s replacement at the Department of Education. But various buzzing bees reminded…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
In today’s ballot measure trivia, an update from the Secretary of State to the Legislature’s Executive Board gives us the total number of petition sheets…
TIF-heavy Madison convinced the Lake County Commission last year to give up years of new property tax revenue to subsidize a sure-fire housing and commercial…
While South Dakota’s Republican leadership wallows in denial, other state legislatures are taking concrete action in response to allegations of sexual misconduct. Republican leaders in…
As Alabama Republican Roy Moore uses his opponent Doug Jones’s position that transgender people have rights as a pretext to avoid publicly debating the Democrat…
Remember the March for Science last April? National organizers are making the next logical step that every anti-Trumpist protest movement must now make, turning all…