Even when Republicans offer a petition or election reform I like, I can’t help noticing that their real motivation is not a deep commitment to…
Tag: crime
Victimless Crime Amendment Also Blocks Prosecution of Drug Abuse, Child Abuse, Theft, Terrorist Plots… With five working days left during which legislators and committees can…
Speaking of risks to public health and safety, Senator Neal Tapio (R-5/Watertown nearly blew a gasket this week when an attendee at the ELCA-sponsored Interfaith…
Here’s what South Dakota really needs: a definition of cheating! Senate Bill 43, requested by the Department of Revenue, would write a definition of cheating into our…
Aberdeen has one more leadfoot—someone got shot at the Millstone Sunday morning: The party was “securing guns in a vehicle when one went off and…
Marty Jackley campaigned for governor in Aberdeen this morning. Addressing about three dozen area residents and a handful of local press, Jackley spent about thirteen…
…who can write a 55-page position paper on the impacts of family breakdown and drug abuse on crime and incarceration rates in South Dakota, with…
Donald Trump has said illegal immigration is one of the greatest threats to our national security. Yet he has issued his first commutation to Sholom…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs says applications for concealed weapons permits have declined from their 2016 peak. According to the Secretary’s bang-up website, after last…
The main Republican way to avoid talking about the role of guns in gun violence is to talk about mental health care (not that Speaker Ryan…