Seconding Rev. Steve Hickey’s effort to stop House Bill 1161 (which gets second reading on the House floor today! call now, say “Vote NO!”) are the…
Tag: South Dakota
If you’re disgusted with the South Dakota Legislature, a group called Accountable South Dakota wants you to come to coffee tomorrow morning. They are organizing a protest…
The South Dakota state servers are broken again—I can’t access the Legislature’s website, the Secretary of State’s, the Governor’s, nada. So I can’t check right now whether…
Just how incompetent was the accounting that Secretary of Education Melody Schopp let continue at Mid-Central Educational Cooperative with no firmer response than “technical support”?…
The payday lenders are waging a desperate multi-front war to stop South Dakotans from stopping their loan sharking. Payday lender boss Rod Aycox has spent…
Erika Unger calls South Dakota home. Most of her family is here. But Unger is not. She is in Denver, practicing law and raising kids in a place…
Several days after Rep. Rev. Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) saw the light and withdrew his ill-informed, fear-mongering, and unconstitutional anti-refugee bill, his reliably reason-impervious neighbor…
When we get to Pierre, maybe we’ll call ourselves the Anti-Ridiculousness Caucus. For Immediate Release: South Dakota Legislative Candidates Call for Veto of Transgender Bathroom…
Given its current preformance, I have trouble enthusing about anything the South Dakota Legislature proposes. The first amendment on our 2016 ballot, Amendment R, is…
From Ken Santema’s video, here’s my two-minute drill on Initiated Measure 23, the “fair-share” union dues proposal: As I’ve noted before, strengthening unions is one component of a broad…