It’ll take more than one New York Times report about an ill-timed trip to Mount Rushmore (whose 3,500 words aren’t as negative as some headline readers might conclude)…
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Republican blogger John Tsitrian agrees with me that the spectacular, tremendous triumph of ObamaCare over TrumpCare signals that South Dakota should finally get on with expanding Medicaid:…
At her hastily called, poorly organized town hall meeting in Watertown weekend before last, Congresswoman Kristi Noem used her tired opposition to Obama-era school lunch nutrition rules…
Just home from the Capitol, Representative Drew Dennert sat down this evening with Dakota Free Press to talk about Veto Day. The freshman Republican and I talk…
The House has failed to override Governor Dennis Daugaard’s vetoes of House Bill 1149, the Democratic tax cut rejected by Republican budget hawks; HB 1156,…
When Rep. Brian Gosch snuck the 80-mile-an-hour speed limit into the 2015 $85-million road tax hike, I pointed to research that suggested higher speed limits mean higher…
South Dakota agriculture relies on immigrant workers to bring in the crops, cattle, and milk. Another big South Dakota industry, tourism, relies on foreign labor to cook, clean, and…
Represent South Dakota is still beating the drum over the Legislature’s arrogant reversal of the voter-approved Initiated Measure 22. The organization assembled a few dozen activists to…
As the Legislature convenes one more time to deal with Governor Dennis Daugaard’s veto of two of their gun bills, an eager reader gets me reading about the…
The South Dakota Advisory Council to the United States Commission on Civil Rights met Friday afternoon in Aberdeen to discuss ‘The Subtle Effects of Racism…