The best bill dumped into the hopper yesterday is House Bill 1030, in which the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources asks that we finally…
Tag: grammar
Representative Jess Olson (R-34/Rapid City) and Senator Erin Tobin (R-21/Winner) are taking the pronouns war to South Dakota’s law books. Olson’s House Bill 1175 proposes to…
The Department of Education had to cancel its August hearing on Governor Kristi Noem’s proposed “divisive concepts” fatwa because the proposed rule broke the law.…
I struggle to endorse a campaign that uses incorrect grammar: “Less stench… less water pollution… less slaughterhouses”? I know: the ad would lack the impact…
I was going to celebrate the announcement that DeSmet boosters would like to build a trail through the slough to isolated Laura Ingalls Wilder landmark…
KOTA-TV reports that during her latest out-of-state trip, Governor Kristi Noem appears to have improvised some comment about “putting prayer back in our schools“: South…
A story completely unrelated to transgender issues supports a grammatical argument I make against the use of the pronoun they to identify any individual, trans, cis…
Lori Walsh let Speaker Steven Haugaard clutter the airwaves with his anti-child, anti-education, anti-woman, anti-family, anti-worker hyperbole against public preschool without much challenge yesterday. Speaker…
Civics education? How about grammar education? My great-uncle Les was a good guy, but… “We’ve got a lot less acres of habitat in South Dakota.…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton gets a nice write-up from AP this weekend. Rather than dwelling on Sutton’s persistent tack right with his anti-union,…