Back in 2012, when Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed funding the Rushmore Connector Trail between the Mickelson Trail at Hill City and Mount Rushmore, I said it sounded like…
Tag: South Dakota
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight noticed that Hillary Clinton’s win in South Dakota’s primary mildly defied the general assumption that Bernie Sanders played best in white, rural states…
Hey, Dennis! Primary’s over! Where’s the special session? Rick Knobe says it’s time to convene the Legislature to expand Medicaid. He says the Republicanism that has…
If the U.S. Department of Energy is serious about “consent-based siting,” then it will be taking the Deep Borehole Field Test someplace other than Spink…
Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Bernie Sanders voters, take note! The lawsuit filed by the Libertarian and Constitution parties last summer against Referred Law 19/Senate Bill…
Maybe Governor Dennis Daugaard should just stay home during the primaries. As in 2012, the Governor’s contributions to GOP Legislative primary candidates in 2016 appear to have produced…
South Dakota’s primary provided the first test of the electoral impact of votes on House Bill 1182, the 0.5% sales tax enacted last week to provide…
Yesterday’s South Dakota primary results bode ill for Democrats. South Dakota Democrats picked Hillary Clinton by Bernie Sanders, they didn’t do so as enthusiastically as…
So I get to wondering: Who’s going to milk all those cows on G. Mark Mickelson’s deregulated CAFO dairies? Who’s going to slaughter the cows trucked to Northern…
Some days the blog writes itself: That’s Dakota Roots, your state government’s employee recruitment program, using federal government jobs to lure workers to conservative South Dakota. Oh,…