If Republicans’ Thanksgiving wishes warrant free publicity, so do Democrats’. My friend and fellow Democratic pot-stirring Frank Kloucek throws this goody into his holiday stew: gratitude…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Remember loan shark/pawn king Chuck Brennan’s effort to push his debtors to contact the Governor and the sponsors of the new 36% interest rate cap and urge…
My local paper’s editorial board looks at the higher salaries South Dakota’s K-12 teachers are getting from the half-penny sales tax hike enacted last June (my updated calculation: an 11.6%…
Just as we Democrats are getting good advice to focus on bread-and-butter economic issues in the 2018 election, some Republican decides to drag the culture…
Hey, Democrats! Your party wants to hear you! When we all get over our Thanksgiving stuffing and shopping hangovers (remember, it’s not the tryptophan!), the South…
I raised $5,701.02 from 76 donors for my District 3 Senate campaign by using ActBlue to collect contributions online. That’s over a quarter of my campaign…
My Aberdeen neighbor Bill Fuhrman represented the worst of Trumpism in his comments in our local paper last week. But in this week’s AAN Reader Panel on…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian appears to agree with me that we South Dakota Democrats should spend less time arguing about who should lead our party…
Fiscal quiz! Can you find the error in the following paragraph from Sara Bertsch’s profile of new Governor’s Office of Economic Development chief Scott Stern? The…
History seems to mitigate against synergy between ballot measures and partisan candidates’ fortunes. Even when we led the nation in putting initiative and referendum into our state…