When Governor Kristi Noem launched the Legislative Session with her Trumpist attack on teachers, she called for new civics education focused on American exceptionalism: Students should be…
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After Sioux Falls school board president Cynthia Mickelson criticized Governor Kristi Noem’s “inexcusable” attack on teachers in her State of the State Address Tuesday, Governor…
Governor Kristi Noem imported her Trumpist laugh line about the need to fight Communism through better civics education into her State of the State speech…
Representative Isaac Latterell’s (R-6/Tea) primary Legislative agenda appears to be to waste our time. In the midst of busy-busy Crossover Week, when each chamber must…
In his 2019 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts notes that John Jay only contributed five of the 85 essays in…
There are more Republicans than Democrats in South Dakota, and even more elected Republicans than elected Democrats, so it’s perfectly statistically predictable that I would…
With Tony Venhuizen leaving Pierre to make his millions in Moneyland, Governor Kristi Noem is stuck with making her interim Education Secretary permanent: Governor Kristi Noem today…
Friends of democracy, starting tomorrow, I should have two petitions available for you to sign. As you know, I’m circulating an initiative petition to roll…
One thing Governor Kristi Noem didn’t get yesterday was her civics test. Wrangling until the last day, the Senate finally killed House Bill 1066 on a…
Amidst a lull in audience questions at today’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel, I took the mic after a question about abolishing the federal Department of Education (no,…