In a remarkable double-header this morning, Greg Belfrage interviewed liberal blogger me at 8:05 and Republican State Senator Stace Nelson at 8:35 as his first guests of 2017. Holy cow—that’s…
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J.J. Perry reports a strange trend in participatory democracy—fewer letters to the editor in 2016: This year, 280 Public Voice letters, guest columns and thank you letters were published in…
When conservative radio talker Charlie Sykes announced in early October that he was quitting after 25 years on the air, he said he didn’t want to be part…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian appears to agree with me that we South Dakota Democrats should spend less time arguing about who should lead our party…
Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post raises alarms about mainstream media going soft on our fascist President-Elect (“the normalization of an authoritarian leader”, says political writer Sarah Kendzior) to preserve their…
As avid election watchers know, Brown County was the slowpoke this year, with a frayed belt on our vote-counting machine delaying the tabulation and announcement…
The day before the election, Slate takes a moment to catalog the most important ballot measures of 2016. Winning parenthetical mention on that list is one measure…
I’ve spoken numerous times on South Dakota’s ten ballot measures. In front of an audience, I’ve never done it in less than thirty minutes. KELO…
Two more Aberdeen neighbors endorse me with letters to the editor in today’s paper: Thanks, Tracie and Tim! Four days to go— let’s all get…
More media—Don Briscoe has invited both of us District 3 Senate candidates to his program for an hour-long discussion of our policies ahead of Tuesday’s big election. I’ll…