Uh oh—another Madison High School debate alumnus is running for the South Dakota Senate! Hoping to join me in the upper chamber next winter is David Bergan. He…
Tag: politics
Democrat Jay Williams will challenge Republican John Thune for his U.S. Senate seat. Straight from South Dakota Democratic Party HQ: “My family and I moved back to…
Seconding Rev. Steve Hickey’s effort to stop House Bill 1161 (which gets second reading on the House floor today! call now, say “Vote NO!”) are the…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has to decide whether to sign House Bill 1008, the paranoid potty bill that the Legislature passed on its irrational fears of transgender children.…
I love Sioux Falls Democratic Forum, not just because they sponsor this blog (thank you!), but, far more importantly, because they offer a great opportunity for…
The South Dakota state servers are broken again—I can’t access the Legislature’s website, the Secretary of State’s, the Governor’s, nada. So I can’t check right now whether…
The South Dakota House of Representatives just rejected House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s 0.5 percentage-point sales tax increase to fund increased teacher pay. Here’s the roll…
Erika Unger calls South Dakota home. Most of her family is here. But Unger is not. She is in Denver, practicing law and raising kids in a place…
When we get to Pierre, maybe we’ll call ourselves the Anti-Ridiculousness Caucus. For Immediate Release: South Dakota Legislative Candidates Call for Veto of Transgender Bathroom…