Build a wall that won’t work for an emergency that doesn’t exist, or build infrastructure that would work for an emergency that does exist on…
Tag: politics
Randy Seiler didn’t come to Oacoma Saturday looking for another job. He’s got plenty to do: in his “retirement” from the U.S. Attorney’s office, he…
My prediction that Tony Venhuizen was in the chute to become our permanent Secretary of Education turns out to be wishful thinking. Instead of remaining…
In making his case to chair the South Dakota Democratic Party at Wednesday’s forum in Aberdeen, John Kennedy Claussen offered some practical political theory. Claussen…
Senator M. Michael Rounds has a new fundraising e-mail out, and it’s chock full of laugh lines. The Democratic Party is moving even further to…
Donald Trump declared his fake emergency to circumvent Congressional rejection of his useless border ego wall on February 15. 27 days later, the Republican-controlled Senate…
Governor Kristi Noem is showing us that her commitment to transparency and openness is far thinner than tar sands oil. The public got its one…
The Senate voted 21–14 yesterday for House Bill 1191, the main hemp legalization bill in Pierre. Normally that would mean the bill is headed for…
House Joint Resolution 1001 was a tolerable idea, checking excessive Executive power by allowing the Legislature to determine how Legislative vacancies should be filled. A…