Bob Mercer is feeling better. His first back-on-the-attack Capitol Journal will make legislators feel worse: The Wollmann episode stirred the dust about past incidents involving…
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My friend The Displaced Plainsman doesn’t predict his own return to regular blogging (alas!), but he does offer some pessimistic predictions about the 2017 Legislative Session, including continued…
Mercer pitches, Krebs swings! Pierre political reporter Bob Mercer complained last weekend that South Dakota’s campaign finance laws gives PACs and unchallenged or inactive campaign committees too much…
Bob Mercer seems to share my frustration with the apparent slow start to the potentially monumental 2016 Legislative Session. Legislators seem to be slow on submitting bills,…
My reporter friends at the Aberdeen American News labor under strict prohibitions on political activity, like not being able to sign petitions. Yet their statewide political reporter (whom…
Proliferating ballot measures again capture reporter Bob Mercer’s weekend column attention. Mercer’s latest Capitol Notebook notes that with three measures already on the ballot and eleven…
I was not sanguine about the prospects of the South Dakota Supreme Court reversing the Office of Hearing Examiners and the circuit court and granting reporter Bob Mercer’s request to…
I’ve reviewed the briefs filed in Mercer v. Jackley, the case before the Supreme Court in which reporter Bob Mercer is seeking access to the documents…
Want to know how toxic Richard Benda has become among South Dakota’s leaders? Consider this exchange in the documents related to reporter Bob Mercer’s effort to get…