I was going to exert myself rebutting Ryan Kelly’s letter in my morning paper peddling the useful myth that the National Rifle Association is a helpful public service…
Dakota Free Press Posts
I’m as surprised as you are: it turns out I’ll be a guest this afternoon—an hour from now!—on 1140 KSOO’s Viewpoint University. Chancellor Rick Knobe plans to…
I don’t know when Congresswoman Kristi Noem last held a public town hall, but the woman who wants to replace her, Rep. Paula Hawks from Hartford, is…
Meanwhile, one Republican is able to oppose a ballot measure on something other than partisan grounds. Sioux Falls attorney and first Janklow-era Attorney General Mark Meierhenry joined…
Conservative opposition to two ballot measures is gearing up. The South Dakota Republican Party passed a resolution at its convention opposing Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary…
Former legislator Stanford Adelstein is trying to be his party’s voice of conscience against the fascism of Donald J. Trump. The Rapid City Republican has aptly compared Trump…
Senator Mike Rounds, who sure as heck wouldn’t have wanted an audit of his EB-5 program and Future Fund grants when he was Governor, says he wants…
Speaking of the man I will replace in the South Dakota Senate, David Novstrup said raising the minimum wage would bring all sorts of bad economic consequences. He…
In his report on his Legislative Interim work, Senator Arthur Rusch (R-17/Vermillion) brings up an issue that I think surfaced in one of our earlier blog…
South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s Dakota Midday is hosting a discussion of the decline of the South Dakota Democratic Party since the Kneip/McGovern years. Host Lori Walsh will interview Jon…