Some of my readers have asked me where South Dakota’s main Democratic candidate for governor, Senator Billie Sutton, stands on women’s reproductive rights. At peril…
Tag: politics
Senator Marion Michael Rounds is hosting not one but two public meetings next week—Chamberlain Wednesday, August 16, 3:30 p.m. Central; Deadwood Thursday, August 17, 3:30…
A recent Leonard Pitts Jr. column asked “What Is Wrong with Trump?” In a letter to the editor in this morning’s Aberdeen American News, my neighbor…
As a minor diversion, let’s compare this week’s Twitter content from South Dakota’s two declared statewide Democratic candidates, Senator Billie Sutton and Tim Bjorkman. Billie…
South Dakota’s Congressional delegation has no courage to stand up to the country’s worst political snake, but at least one of candidates seeking to join…
The Republican Senate’s third proposal to undo the Affordable Care Act failed last night, thanks to the nays of every Democrat in the Senate plus unflappable…
I mentioned last month that our Congressional delegation’s drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act (and in this week’s vote-a-rama, Senators John Thune and Mike…
The Washington, D.C.-based American Conservative Union Foundation says South Dakota’s Legislature got less conservative this year. Hooray! The ACUF has reviewed each piece of legislation…
Two years ago, Donald Trump said John McCain’s five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam didn’t qualify McCain as a…
Senator Bob Ewing (R-31/Spearfish) isn’t shopping at the Spearfish Sears, due to marijuana politics. Spearfish Sears owners Phil and Stephanie Rebsom have been circulating petitions…