Legislature, help me out. Every time I post about the Deep Borehole Field Test—you know, that nice little engineering project to try drilling perfectly straight three-mile…
Tag: democracy
Rep. Don Haggar and Senator-Elect Jim Bolin repeat for that Sioux Falls paper the threat they made to AP back in November: they want to kill initiative…
History seems to mitigate against synergy between ballot measures and partisan candidates’ fortunes. Even when we led the nation in putting initiative and referendum into our state…
The fact that Dusty Johnson is running for Congress is pretty cool. But even cooler is the likely reason that we know he’s running now: the swift enactment…
While Al Novstrup campaigns from inside a tin can, his party leaders are responding to Donald Trump’s winking threat to throw our democratic process into…
Donald Trump has uttered many statements over the last fifteen months that sounded like the words that would end his candidacy. Tonight we heard the ultimate…
Regular readers know I’m big on direct democracy. We can’t vote on everything—governments and organizations need governing boards and executives who can make certain decisions without having…
How do we know Michelle Obama and her speechwriter didn’t plagiarize her speech to the Democratic National Convention? Because the First Lady spoke last night of her own unique, historic,…
Fellow Democratic Legislative candidate Paul Schipper (District 11 House) does voters the favor of posting my June 25 explanation to the South Dakota Democratic Convention of why…
Hobby Lobby buys up the back page of my Fourth of July paper to remind me that they think America is only for people like them…