On Wednesday, I challenged Lisa Furlong’s (or should we just call it Rod Aycox’s now, since his Georgia-based company provided all of the $1.7 million necessary to…
Tag: South Dakota
Recognizing the environmental risk and potential revenue opportunity of the looming Dakota Access Pipeline, Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) and Rep. Paula Hawks (D-9/Hartford) have offered Senate Bill…
Medical cannabis advocate Melissa Mentele and her organization New Approach South Dakota are inviting supporters to Patients Day at the Capitol on Wednesday, February 10, to support…
Once again, Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard agrees with Democratic blog Dakota Free Press—House Bill 1158, Rep. Rev Scott Craig’s (R-33/Rapid City) proposal to swamp South Dakota refugee settlement…
Stu Whitney looks at the South Dakota Legislature’s willingness to stigmatize and deny equality to people who don’t look or love the way their Ward-and-June morality says they should and…
The uncompassionate, unconstitutional conservatives of the South Dakota Legislature just keep trying to kick the poor in the teeth. A week after seeing the DiSanto-Olson…
Last night I noted that that the main idea of a Dakota Free Press readers’ bill on requiring 80% landowner consensus to invoke eminent domain has…
Last month Governor Dennis Daugaard said the apparent corruption in the GEAR UP program administered by the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative for the state was “ridiculous.” Evidently sick…
What’s another way to fight corruption in South Dakota? Support unions. Beleaguered employees at the South Dakota Developmental Center in Redfield may pursue unionization to better…
My Republican friend John Tsitrian threads an interesting political needle in the Rapid City Journal. He says he supports the intent of House Bill 1067, the…