House Bill 1082, Representative Kadyn Wittman’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) hard-fought campaign to make school meals free for kids who already qualify for the reduced price, still…
Tag: food
If Republicans reject the latest Democratic proposal to eliminate South Dakota’s unusual sales tax on food, maybe they’ll at least support a tax break for…
Democrats are taking another swing at repealing South Dakota’s food tax. District 15’s dynamic House Dems Erik Muckey and Kadyn Wittman offer House Bill 1281,…
Rep. John Sjaarda (R-2/Valley Springs) wants to ban test-tube meat for ten years. Rep. Julie Auch (R-18/Yankton) wants to treat cell-cultured protein like shit. Rep.…
South Dakota passionately defends and subsidizes production of milk and meat from animals raised in confinement amidst massive leap-prone pools of sewage, but some Republican…
You know, maybe I’d be o.k. with fascism if I just got the cheaper eggs Trump promised. But we don’t get to test that hypothesis…
I rode my bike for about 11 1/2 hours today, from Council Grove to Osawatomie, Kansas, along the splendid Flint Hills Nature Trail. Unlike Saturday,…
Dakotans for Health is circulating an initiative petition to codify Roe v. Wade, which Christofascist Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) vociferously opposes. But Dakotans for Health…
Bart Pfankuch follows up on South Dakota’s ridiculous grandstanding against federal funding for summer food aid for kids and gets another reticent state official to…
Last winter, South Dakota state government refused to apply for millions in federal funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 to help…