Those sneaky payday lenders! I spend a day incommunicado on another project, and they get their flunkies to file their challenge to Initiated Measure 21, the…
Tag: politics
The South Dakota Legislature is considering a petition reform that could completely eliminate the petitioning process for candidates with money. Senate Bill 95, served up hot…
The Democratic plan to raise South Dakota teacher pay is superior to Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plan for three main reasons: The Democratic plan raises teacher pay…
Hey, Attorney General Jackley! Looking forward to bringing your bill on fetal tissue sales to Senate Judiciary so your friends at the Family Heritage Alliance…
Maybe District 30 House candidate Weldon Travis Lasseter really can’t hear what he’s saying. Last week the aspiring New Underwood wing nut needed me to point out that posing for…
In his latest Farm and Food File column, Alan Guebert observes that one self-selecting sample of farmers in Iowa and nationwide leans toward Republican Presidential candidates Donald Trump…
A South Dakota Legislative Session can’t go by without someone grandstanding on abortion politics. Attorney General Marty Jackley offers Senate Bill 24, felonizing the already banned sale…
Desiring re-election, Rep. Kristi Noem has been making noise about the need to improve Indian Health Service. Hmm… would Indian Health Service have been able to improve…
South Dakota Republicans’ latest spiteful, uncompassionate, and unconstitutional welfare drug-testing bill is officially in the hopper. House Bill 1076, sponsored by right-wing poster gals Rep. Lynne DiSanto…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) leads a whole bunch of cranky conservatives into battle tomorrow with House Bill 1060, to repeal the South Dakota Board on…