How do you make amends with the party establishment after ousting one of their favorite sons from his Pierre sinecure? By hiring another favorite son…
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The South Dakota Republican Party’ latest attack on direct democracy is House Bill 1200, which would impose a geographical quota on petition signatures to place…
Senator Erin Tobin (R-21/Winner) is unhappy that the anti-abortion absolutists of her Republican Party, the people on whom she relies for her political career, killed…
Speaking of free lunches, Democrats in South Dakota would like to make sure that all that milk and pork our crony-socialist ag-industrial complex produces gets…
The Board of Economic Development gave out more Big Ag socialism Wednesday. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development reports that the board approved a $4,400,000…
Representative Phil Jensen (R-33.Hisega) played weak political theater Wednesday afternoon, bringing a lengthy House State Affairs committee hearing to a dreary ending with a limp…
House Education assuages my alarm over Senator Jessica Castleberry’s (R-35/Rapid City) unworkable school censorship bill, Senate Bill 193, by killing Representative Jon Hansen’s (R-25/Dell Rapids)…
Speaking of the single-subject rule, Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) is doing a little more hacking of citizens’ right to amend their constitution with House Bill…
In 2018, South Dakota voters incorrectly and anti-democratically approved Amendment Z, the single-subject rule for proposed constitutional amendments. In 2021, Governor Kristi Noem and the…
Kevin Woster has long held the notion that if we can’t beat ’em, we should join ’em—or, more specifically, that in the absence of a…