When I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid. But even in my youngest and stupidest moments, I never got drunk, crawled into…
Tag: crime
Following up on yesterday’s post about how Huron, Brookings, and other rural communities depend on immigration for their economic survival, an eager reader asked, “What…
South Dakota is part of a nationwide shortage of people who want to be cops: The Sioux Falls Police Department received 634 applications for open officer…
Last year Levi Breyfogle submitted two initiated amendments that he’d like to petition on the 2020 ballot. These measures, to outlaw “victimless” crimes and to…
The feds have indicted South Dakota Republican schemer Paul Erickson, not centrally for any shenanigans with convicted Russian agent Maria Butina, but for wire fraud…
Here’s another needless bill from our legislators. The Republican mother-son team of Rep. Lana and Sen. Brock Greenfield offer House Bill 1197, a measure intended…
House Bill 1061 poses a due-process quandary for conservatives. Representative Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) offers this measure to allow victims of sexual assault to ask the…
On January 10, I published a letter from convicted murderer Shane Bell describing the beginning of a typical day in the Jameson Annex of South…
A gasoline pipeline blew up in the Mexican state of Hidalgo last night, killing (as counted at the moment of this writing) 66 people. But…
House Bill 1050 sensibly updates and toughens up our credit card fraud statutes. Brought by Rep. Hugh Bartels (R-5/Watertown), HB 1050 revises the law in…