Unable to muster intelligent commentary about either the Presidential debate that his nominee lost miserably last night or the South Dakota issues that should be defining…
Tag: politics
Our discussion of Amendment V’s implications for plurality thresholds and ties prompted one shy reader to comment by e-mail that a fundamental weakness of the initiative process is the…
Rick Knobe’s opposition to Referred Laws 19 (the Incumbent Protection Plan) and 20 (the youth sub-minimum wage) is no surprise. The Sioux Falls radio man…
Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday appointed former House Majority Leader David Lust to the District 34 House seat left vacant by Rep. Dan Dryden’s death last month. Now-Representative Lust…
In a world of rational actors, last night’s Presidential debate ended the 2016 Presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton, a woman whom I once loathed, proved that she has the knowledge, experience,…
Placing a Trump/Pence sign in one’s yard is intellectually equivalent to wearing a “South Dakota Is Big Cock Country!” cap. Trump signers flip the bird at…
Al Jazeera’s John Hendren needed an excuse to go see Mount Rushmore. He managed to turn the trip into a report on early voting in…
South Dakota Republicans really want to beat Amendment T, because it would get rid of gerrymandering. South Dakota Republicans, like any majority party, really like gerrymandering,…
The Aberdeen American News gives poorly prioritized, unbalanced, and incomplete coverage of yesterday’s Brown County candidates’ forum. I’ll provide a complete rundown when A-TEC video producer Wayne Hansen makes…
A couple weeks ago, it looked like the Senate was going to skip town early, after just a couple weeks back from summer recess, so struggling…