Scientific American asked our Presidential candidates twenty questions about science and technology issues. The responses on biodiversity demonstrate the difference between the informed and practical Democrat…
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Senator Mike Rounds apparently can’t debate the merits of Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary proposal. Our junior Senator thus resorts to misrepresenting the proposal as…
I’ve criticized the notion of an Article V Convention to rewrite the Constitution as an easy way for ALEC and other Legislature-buying corporate tyrants to trash the…
The Indian Health Service yesterday announced that Avera Health will get $6.8 million to provide telehealth services to the nineteen Great Plains Area service units (North…
The Aberdeen American News blandly reports the crypto-Klan meeting Trumpist BS artists Ron Branstner and Bob Enos will hold here in Aberdeen tomorrow night: Ron Branstner, of Minnesota and…
Senator John Thune (for whose health insurance his employer—we the people—picks up over 70% of the tab) says that high health insurance premiums show that the…
When a California billionaire is dedicated to a vanity project, you get sloppy management. Henry T. Nicholas is spending millions of dollars to promote Amendment S…
It would be easy to confuse TakeItBack.org and TakeBack.org. TakeItBack.org is the website of the ballot question organization founded by liberal Democratic South Dakotan Rick…
Seth Tupper reports that in 2014, both Al and David Novstrup (Rs-3/Aberdeen) watered down proposed amusement park regulations to protect his Thunder Road amusement parks: …when [Al] Novstrup learned…
That Sioux Falls paper has done voters the favor of archiving its livestream of Thursday’s statewide ballot question forum. That video features, in order: [17:30] Amendment T—end gerrymandering…