Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act, includes one potentially unconstitutional section. Scroll to the bottom and read Section 68: There is hereby appropriated from the…
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Add Union County’s Jerry Miller to the list of state’s attorneys opposing Amendment S. The Union County state’s attorney (one of whose deputies is Jason Ravnsborg, who’s…
Wait! Maybe Rep. Kristi Noem didn’t vote to extend EB-5 without reform again two weeks ago! At the request of an unnamed member or members of…
The comma chameleons of the “Americans First, Task Force” splash the new Aberdeen city budget on their Xenophobics Anonymous (if only they were seeking help…
While I was campaigning today, a neighbor struggling with his Trump-excusification joked that “Democrats like free stuff.” Really? My neighbor’s preferred Presidential nominee says he will…
Governor Dennis Daugaard proudly announced another budget surplus last month, this time $14.1 million. He might need it for next year. According to projections provided by the…
Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson won’t be at the South Dakota Libertarian Convention here in Aberdeen Saturday afternoon, but he did at least give the Libertarians…
Dentist and District 8 Republican Rep. Leslie Heinemann thinks expanding Medicaid is too risky. Dentist Leslie Heinemann has apparently never experienced the risk of living without…
Speaking of the danger of trying to do health care on the cheap, South Dakota’s stinginess led to a dead teenager that the Human Services Center in Yankton…
The GOP spin machine is acting like Senator John Thune, Senator Mike Rounds, and Representative Kristi Noem achieved some great breakthrough by standing around in…