Legislators and their pals are congratulating themselves on a purported return to civility during the 2023 Session: Tim Rave is a health care lobbyist who…
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South Dakota News Watch’s fourth report on its July Mason-Dixon polling results is a spectacular exercise in not talking about the elephants in the room.…
So right-wing extremists pay $250 to attend the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference, and what does Governor Kristi Noem give them? A reheated version of her…
I need to shut off Facebook. It tries too hard to dominate my mind with its response-time rat lever (and doesn’t even give me a…
At its meeting next week at the School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, the South Dakota Board of Regents will discuss seven draft…
…Would Trump Survive This Rule? In other action today, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee amended its “Professional Conduct and Civility” rule (Joint Rule 1B-3) to…
When do we take up arms against an oppressor? Such is the troubling question our Founding Fathers answered with muskets in April 1775 and in…
Writer and retired professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn swears off and swears at social media: This invention was not the Utopian Dream whose purpose, some suggest, get’s…
An eager reader submits this note, left in the mailbox of a Hillary Clinton supporter proudly displaying a Clinton campaign sign in his Rapid City yard:…
While working the Democratic booth at the Brown County Fair, I had a Trump supporter come up to me unbidden and, without preface, call me…