As Senator Bernie Sanders will tell you, the Republican war on the middle class is bad for democracy and for capitalism. But could the GOP’s class warfare have…
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Only 15.5% of Mitchell’s electorate voted yesterday in favor of building an $8-million indoor pool. But since only 28.5% of Mitchell’s electorate came to the polls, that was enough…
Democrats may be annoyed by yet another miserly budget address from a governor who doesn’t fully put his money where his mouth is on vital public goods. But the…
Bob Mercer joins many other South Dakotans in wishing that Governor Dennis Daugaard would use his budget address this afternoon to address corruption in state government. It seems…
A Facebook correspondent looks at Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon’s suggestion that Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to require new Medicaid recipients to work and asks if that’s even…
Senator Mike Rounds finally gets around to addressing the blatant contradiction in his party’s post-Paris hysteria about Syrian refugees who haven’t committed any terrorist acts…
If Governor Dennis Daugaard offers to expand Medicaid in his budget address next week (and I contend that’s still a big if), he won’t do so happily.…
Pat Powers is too steeped in the propaganda demands to offer any substantive analysis of the audit Mid-Central Educational Cooperative released yesterday of its handling of…
So Duane Riedel and John Thune walk into a bar. Duane Riedel, the former chairman of the Brown County Republican Party, says, “Dagnabit, If things need to…
Various observers have ranked South Dakota as a pretty good place to retire. Strangely, our Congressional delegation isn’t helping. The National Retiree Legislative Network gives Senator John Thune, Senator…