Sanford Health exerts a lot of political pull in South Dakota (pull which will be tested by its current effort to undo the will of…
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Two Bills Aimed at Hartford: SB 64 Clarifies One Councilor One Vote; SB 65 Lets Auditor Block Recall
No sooner do I mention the council chaos in Hartford than two bills pop into the Legislative hopper hoping to clarify how city governments are supposed to…
Ah, sweet anarchy…. Hartford offers Libertarians and other chaoticians a brief exercise in the disappearance of government. Double-voting city councilman Doyle Johnson resigned last week following controversy over…
Ken Santema picks up South Dakota’s lone entry in the 2015 Wastebook, the project Arizona Senator Jeff Flake inherited from retired Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn to spotlight…
My post this morning on Dr. Chicoine’s impending reliance on Monsanto for the bulk of his income got one eager reader reviewing the complete list of…
Declines in public-sector employment and wages have dragged down the recovery from the 2008 recession. Those declines have also disproportionately hurt minority workers: Part of the reason…
On September 11, Aberdeen businessman Matt Dielke started “Promoting Honesty and Transparency in County Government,” a Facebook page to document his efforts to get some…
Senator Mike Rounds and the South Dakota Farm Bureau don’t think government should help Americans get health insurance: South Dakota Farm Bureau President Scott VanderWal,…
One citizen, one vote… unless you’re the president of the Hartford City Council protecting your mayor from a recall vote. In a well-attended and heated meeting last night, six members…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs continued her public relations tour around South Dakota with a speech at the Brown County Republicans’ Reagan Lunch yesterday here…