Update 12:03 CDT: South Dakota Federation of Labor AFL-CIO President DuWayne Wohlleber informs me that the state AFL-CIO does not endorse candidates before convention. He…
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Trumpist Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke dropped by the Badlands and an old Minuteman missile silo yesterday with Rep. Kristi Noem to tout Interior’s “good neighbor…
I teased new Sioux Falls mayor Paul TenHaken last week for some word and spandex choices that could make his Republican backers nervous. Now this week…
While discussing Billie Sutton’s economic development plan yesterday, I mentioned that government can’t reach into the private sector and raise everybody’s wages. But maybe government…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton starts off his economic development plan with the one phrase his Republican opponents refuse to mention when talking workforce: raising…
On Tuesday the Tax Foundation published an analysis of the state-by-state cost of Trump’s impulsive and ill-advised steel and aluminum tariffs. This analysis does not…
The Legislature’s passage of bills raising and indexing legislator pay starting next year prompted one of my Twitter friends to wag, “So collective bargaining does…
In another bit of remarkable good news from Pierre, the Senate yesterday listened to people who care about higher education and killed House Bill 1199,…
Whoo-hoo! Patrick Lalley still thinks I’m worth having on the air! In today’s blogging on the radio (our fifteen-minute segment starts at 35:00), Lalley and I…
Senator Billie Sutton and the Democratic caucus get credit for fighting for practical women’s issues with House Bill 1153, which sought to protect pregnant and…