I’m puzzling over the seeming disconnect between South Dakota’s alleged population growth and its stagnant economy. Governor Kristi Noem has claimed that lots of (good…
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Former Republican Senate candidate and family-values espouser Joel Koskan pled guilty today to two counts of felony incest and was immediately sentenced to ten years…
This morning’s reminder that there is hope for democracy comes from two charts in Governing‘s article on the prospect of younger voters affecting election outcomes. Millennials…
Last month, Pope Francis renounced the Doctrine of Discovery, so our Lakota neighbors can now kick us all off the prairie, right? Popes in the…
Radical right-wingnut group Patriot Ripple Effect is hosting an adults-only meeting Thursday to alert citizens to “What Is in Your Child’s Library?” Of course, like…
South Dakota has banned ballot dropboxes, much to the anti-democratic glee of Secretary of State Monae Johnson and her office wingnuts, but Pennington County says…
Construction costs are up all over, but at least the Rochford Road rebuild drew some competition to temper inflation: It will cost about $6 million…
A week before leading a vote to expel three Democratic legislators for speaking out of order with props for 52 minutes from the Tennessee House…
South Dakota Searchlight‘s series on Governor Kristi Noem’s soft-on-crime commutations and paroles remind us that the Governor may not be following state law and constitution…
Transparency Schmansparency: Monae Johnson Slow to Provide Public Records, Won’t Take Email Requests
Monae Johnson promised “Greater Transparency in your Secretary of State Office!” Of course, we knew that promise was a sham back during the campaign when…