Back in town: Floyd Pickett, payday lending tool. KELO-TV spots Pickett at the Hampton Inn, with friends: Floyd Pickett, the protest leader in the middle of the controversy at…
Tag: democracy
Double Disclosure: The Sioux Falls Democratic Forum pays me to advertise their Friday meetings in the sidebar, and Farmers Union is paying me to circulate their petition… but…
Here’s the text of a letter to my Aberdeen neighbors that I’m hoping the Aberdeen paper will publish: From April through June, you saw me with…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs called me a few minutes ago to inform me that Senate Bill 69 will now be known as Referred Law 19. Yes, that…
The Aberdeen American News goes out on two limbs this week. The Hub City’s editorial board tells Aberdeen voters they have “failed” in producing a dismal…
Turnout in local elections suggests democracy is losing to apathy: Rapid City school election: 33.6% [Update 12:25 CDT: Pennington County election supervisor Lori Severson tells me there…
I stopped by the Brown County Courthouse a couple hours ago and voted in today’s Aberdeen Central school board election. I was voter #337 in the community. Mayor…
Why bother driving to Pierre for the Bosworth trial? You already know what the prosecution will say, what the defense will offer as distractions, and…
Rick Weiland is serious about defending democracy from Big Money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcnxe8Agp-8 This stone-faced video, like the “Pledge” video that accompanied the public launch of Weiland’s…
Want a double dose of democracy? Aberdeen’s League of Women Voters and the Chamber of Commerce are hosting a candidate forum this Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m. at…