Senate State Affairs backed away from declaring Lutheran Social Services unfit to help refugees yesterday. After hearing from seven proponents and seventeen opponents on Senate Concurrent…
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I don’t spend much time seating Legislative resolutions. They enact no policy; they mostly just scratch itches in our legislators’ dark and damp places. But some resolutions…
Senate State Affairs showed a little good sense yesterday, transforming Senator Brock Greenfield’s ugly anti-refugee power grab. In Senate Bill 124, Senator Greenfield and a flock of fellow…
In trivia from yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel… Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) compared his anti-refugee bill to his mom’s anti-nuclear waste bill, saying both are simply measures to…
On the bright side, losing the Senate race means I have time to teach and judge debate. For Scott Parsley, losing his Senate race means…
Senator John Thune says Trump screwed up, a little, with his executive order on immigration: “The way in which this particular executive order was rolled out has…
Apparently failing to recognize they have the White House on their side, Senator Al Novstrup and other Trumpist legislators have filed Senate Bill 124, an effort to…
Folks at JFK Airport, in the Twitterverse, and around the world are protesting President Trump’s order banning over 134 million human beings, including 500,000 legal residents,…
While the Aberdeen American News editorial board delivers agnostic pap about how “The sun rose” after the election of Donald Trump (the sun also rose…
Yes, the man wearing this shirt at a Trump rally in Minnesota Sunday is deplorable: Journalism is a vital First Amendment activity that has always protected us…