Joe Lowe, vice chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party, is as disgusted as Senator Chuck Schumer with the incredible and dangerous incompetence demonstrated by…
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Alas, South Dakota isn’t the only state with a Capitol hostile to women. Daniel C. Vock’s new article in Governing says female lawmakers in California, Rhode…
Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray have reached their bipartisan deal to stabilize the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and restore the cost-sharing reduction payments that…
What are we afraid of? It’s hard to say from this letter to the editor in my morning paper, whose author seems to think there…
Quartz offers a remarkable summary of Donald Trump’s war on women. Tying together cuts in foreign aid for reproductive health, the cancellation of a plan…
Remember Senator John Thune’s impotent response to the Las Vegas shooting? My local paper dedicated its Sunday editorial to its “anger” over Thune’s “get small”…
That Sioux Falls paper gives SDGOP chair Dan Lederman a chance to respond to the brouhaha about his holding an active registration as a Democratic…
A President who does not understand the difference between the stock market and the national debt is now pretending to understand how to make health insurance…
If Speaker G. Mark Mickelson is serious about banning out-of-state money from South Dakota politics, he needs to expand his focus from ballot measures to…
For a savvy politico, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) is remarkably forgetful. The Senate Republican whip can’t remember for sure if he registered as a Democrat……