While I was enjoying the thrilling parliamentary wrangling of the South Dakota Democratic Party’s state central committee meeting last month, a fellow Democrat turned to…
Tag: athletics
Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) takes his trans-panic Senate Bill 49 to the Senate Education Committee this morning at 7:45. It is the only bill on this…
…and Sports Betting a Progressive Tax? The Legislative Research Council doesn’t think sports betting in Deadwood will be a big moneymaker. In a fiscal note…
Northern State University isn’t putting much faith in our legislators’ “relationships” to get the funding it needs to finish its building projects. With construction costs…
My morning paper brings me another example of Republicans who don’t use words with meaning. In a letter to the editor, John Swanhorst of Aberdeen…
Friday evening, I mused that Pat Powers’s criticism of independent District 7 House candidate Cory Ann Ellis for one tweet expressing a lack of interest…
Put a cork in any Special Session enthusiasm: Speaker G. Mark Mickelson says South Dakota will play follow-the-leader on sports betting: “I think something like…
The United States Supreme Court just offered South Dakota a budgetary shot in the arm. No, they haven’t given Marty Jackley a win on our…
Boys from Crow Creek, Pine Ridge, and Red Cloud are playing in the Class A State Basketball Tournament in Rapid City; boys from Timber Lake, Lower…
Maybe the walkout was a couple days early…. Maybe four dozen students at Aberdeen Central—out of a student body of about 1,200—participated in the nationwide…