Rick Knobe’s opposition to Referred Laws 19 (the Incumbent Protection Plan) and 20 (the youth sub-minimum wage) is no surprise. The Sioux Falls radio man…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday appointed former House Majority Leader David Lust to the District 34 House seat left vacant by Rep. Dan Dryden’s death last month. Now-Representative Lust…
In a world of rational actors, last night’s Presidential debate ended the 2016 Presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton, a woman whom I once loathed, proved that she has the knowledge, experience,…
Seth Tupper reports that the U.S. Forest Service opposes a bill sponsored by Senator John Thune to speed a land swap between South Dakota and Uncle Sam…
Placing a Trump/Pence sign in one’s yard is intellectually equivalent to wearing a “South Dakota Is Big Cock Country!” cap. Trump signers flip the bird at…
Remember the site of Dakota Access pipeline security’s dog and pepper spray attacks on trespassing protestors on September 3? The owner of that land, David Meyer, has…
…and Whose Fault Is That Unfairness? Rep. Al Novstrup and I agree that South Dakota’s current method of assessing agricultural land for property tax is a mess.…
Al Jazeera’s John Hendren needed an excuse to go see Mount Rushmore. He managed to turn the trip into a report on early voting in…
South Dakota Republicans really want to beat Amendment T, because it would get rid of gerrymandering. South Dakota Republicans, like any majority party, really like gerrymandering,…
Ignored in the Aberdeen American News report on yesterday’s District 3 Legislative candidate forum is the noteworthy agreement of five of the six candidates revealed in the…