A year ago, Aberdeen’s mini-Klan kicked off its campaign of fear and loathing with a presentation in which an out-of-state slideshow hoaxster railed falsely against local…
Tag: South Dakota
If you like water, go have a beer… in Sioux Falls this evening with the Friends of the Big Sioux River! These clean-water warriors are…
South Dakota KIDS COUNT fills its Twitter stream with interesting data. Today’s chart shows that we’re doing a relatively poor job of persuading teenagers not…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp raised my eyebrows with her claim last week that the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative scandal didn’t lose any federal GEAR UP grant…
The illiterate SDGOP spin blog is back to appealing to the Cost of Living Fairy to justify South Dakota’s low teacher pay. In January 2016,…
Who’s the only South Dakota political party that grew in July? The Libertarians! Party Change July 5 to August 1 GOP -0.29% Dem -0.49% NPA/Ind…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson wants to raise taxes on tobacco to subsidize vo-tech tuition. His proposed initiative foresees up to $20 million in new vo-tech revenue…
Stephanie Woodard reports that South Dakota’s Help America Vote Act Grant Board has approved the release of federal funding for satellite early voting centers in six…
Congressional leaders moved yesterday to work bipartisanly and protect the “cost sharing reduction” (CSR) payments that help lower-income policyholders (between 100% and 250% of the…
Attorney General Marty Jackley released his explanation yesterday of Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s proposed ballot initiative to ban contributions to ballot question committees from people,…