Ah, memories—here are my past Top Ten future stories: 2015 2010 2014 2009 2013: no list! Distracted by trip to France! 2008 2012 2007 2011…
Tag: politics
What is it about doctors turning out to be sham candidates? Just like Dr. Annette Bosworth when she ran for Senate in South Dakota in…
Did Art Marmorstein just call me Charles Manson? I’ve tried to be nice to local columnist, history professor, and neighbor Art Marmorstein. I’ve learned that conservative NSU profs are not…
As promised, the latest Dakota Free Press poll asks you, dear readers, to vote on proposals you’d like the South Dakota Legislature to pass in 2016. I offer…
My erstwhile State Senator Russell Olson returns to Pierre as the newest Game Fish and Parks Commissioner: “Russ will be a great addition to the Game,…
An eager reader reports that someone is robocalling against Medicaid expansion in South Dakota: All of the questions began “would you be more likely, [less likely]…
Pat Powers rushes to tamp down the Robert Pear’s suggestion of a split between Pat’s sponsors Governor Dennis Daugaard and Senator John Thune on Medicaid expansion…
Sensible Republican blogger (the terms are not mutually exclusive) John Tsitrian says it’s crazy that South Dakota doesn’t have an income tax and it’s crazy…
I’m reading a book by John Rawls called Political Liberalism [Columbia University Press, 1996]. The introduction offers this neat summary of the primary question we politicians (and…