Governor Dennis Daugaard’s budget address on Tuesday will tackle one thorny contributor to South Dakota’s lagging sales tax revenues—increased spending on health care: Twenty years…
Tag: Al Novstrup
My neighbor Alan Neville uses his regular column in our local paper to call out area legislators for supporting the anti-immigrant rallies that have plagued…
Dan Lederman is determined to lead the South Dakota Republican Party in a full-scale assault on the legitimacy of popular democracy. He has called ballot…
For a savvy politico, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) is remarkably forgetful. The Senate Republican whip can’t remember for sure if he registered as a Democrat……
During his campaign for Senate last year, Al Novstrup cried that the low point of his time in the Legislature was when I suggested a…
New Zealand conspiracy hack Trevor Loudon’s speeches in South Dakota this make clear that anti-refugee agitation is really a Republican Red-Scare-style attack on Democrats. The…
Former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory claims he’s experiencing some discrimination. McCrory says some employers have been “reluctant” to hire him due to his support last year for…
But hey, lest anyone accuse me of being too hard on Al Novstrup, let me give him some equal time. Here, without commentary or redaction, is…
Al Novstrup didn’t get the $39-million property tax increase he wanted, but he did vote to raise property tax on farmers. Check out Senate Bill 35,…
It took Al Novstrup four tries to figure out that there ought to be a rule against legislators having sex with interns. My District 3…