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…
Tag: South Dakota
—Knock knock! —Who’s there? —Not Mexican corn buyers, if one Mexican Senator gets his way: Mexico is one of the top buyers of American corn in…
Last month, Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) said he wanted to introduce a “stay in South Dakota” requirement for the Opportunity Scholarship, the $6,500 we offer…
Three months ago, Governor Dennis Daugaard said the state revenue outlook wasn’t great. Today, his Bureau of Finance and Management tells us the revenue outlook is worse…
As another sign that the Republican Party has been hijacked by Trumpy activists with commitment to no principles, 73 party activists chose a foreign agent of Saudi Arabia who…
A key part protecting voters and progressive values from corruption in Pierre (not to mention fascism in the White House) is ballot initiatives. Our Republican…
To resist, we must remember. On the same day that the Trump White House brought the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines back from the…
A friend of mine expresses her love for President Trump by throwing all sorts of anti-Obama, anti-Clinton, anti-liberal memes—many debunkable in seconds—at me on Facebook. Ever…
While President Trump lied about the size of his Inaugural crowd, women and folks who like women marched in support of women’s rights and in protest…
My local paper reports that 27,909 South Dakotans signed up by December 24 for individual marketplace health insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act. That’s 27,909 South Dakotans who…