Dennis Daugaard appointed 18 legislators to vacancies in eight years. He didn’t get to make his first appointment until November of his first year in…
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A thought occurs to me. The Senate Republican caucus has yet to elect its leadership. When the caucus gathers next week in Pierre (Tuesday, December…
But who needs nurses? We need concealed guns, and we need them now, without having to pay $10! Such are Representative, now Senator-Elect Lynne DiSanto’s…
Well, Democrats in the South Dakota Legislature did a little better than Republicans at picking women for leadership positions. Democrats elected a woman. A woman. According…
Elect a bunch of empty Rs, and what do you get? “Leadership” consisting of no great statesmen… and no women. Republican Representatives-Elect met in Pierre…
If Tuesday’s election results stand, South Dakota’s Legislature will have four more women in the 2019 Session than it did in the 2018 Session. The…
I can’t report this without giving my political detractors an opening to distract from the main issue by dinging me as a sore loser. But…
Democrat Bill Adamson thinks I’ve been thinking too much about his illegitimate and thus deservedly failed bid for District 7 House. Wait ’til he sees…
After all that talk of a “Blue Wave,” South Dakota Democrats made zero progress in the Legislature, increasing their share of the 70-seat House of…
The Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force meets next Tuesday to discuss the absurd, Rube-Goldberg system of taxing South Dakota’s farm and ranch land based on…