The executive board of South Dakota Progress met in Aberdeen on Thursday. Chair Katrina Wilke and board members Michael Hanson, mrc Miller (no, really, lowercase—that’s the way…
Tag: politics
Senator John Thune is the number-three man in the leadership of the majority party of the United States Senate. His party enjoys a larger majority in the Senate and…
Dr. Newquist notes a convergence of good news about Medicare (which just turned fifty years old yesterday and did not usher in the socialist devolution Ronald Reagan feared)…
Lacking any real news to discuss, Pat Powers recycles the fact that no Democrat has entered next year’s U.S. Senate race into another gleeful chortling over Senator John…
The victory of people power over payday-lending bullies (in one day’s battle, not yet the war) and (from what I hear) the well-attended Bernie Sanders meetings…
And if all these petitions aren’t enough political engagement for you, Ellee Spawn is hosting a Bernie Sanders kickoff event in Sioux Falls tonight! No, the junior Senator…
In the backfire department, Sioux Falls businesswoman Tove Hoff Bormes is hanging out at Josiah’s Coffeehouse and Café this morning collecting signatures on the petition to put a…
The Department of Health reports that 40 same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses in the first month following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v Hodges. That’s less than…
The predatory payday lenders dirty tricks multiply faster than the interest their victims have to pay. Steve Hildebrand, one of the leaders of the petition drive…
Which story is bigger: George McGovern had two children outside of marriage, or J. Edgar Hoover used the powers of the FBI to dig up…