Governor Dennis Daugaard is not giving up on Medicaid expansion, but he’s missing an obvious avenue for increasing the chances of passing the plan: helping Democrats win…
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Along with giving the Sanders campaign 80% of what it wants, the national Democratic Party platform, as drafted last weekend, rejects the poor-shaming misogyny of the Hyde…
The South Dakota Constitution Party announces its full slate of nominees, legal and extralegal: District 23 State House: Wayne Schmidt U.S. Senate: Kurt Evans State Party…
Denny Pierson held his formal public kickoff for his District 13 Senate campaign at Sioux Falls Democratic Forum last month. Paul Schipper provides the video:…
Once again, Governor Dennis Daugaard fails to lead. He has a creative plan that would bring the health and economic benefits of Medicaid expansion to South Dakota at…
We’ve passed up three years of the medical and economic benefits of Medicaid expansion; why not make it four? Such is the “leadership” offered by District 3 Republican…
The Daugaard appointee who couldn’t win his primary wants a recount. Senator Bill Shorma (R-16/Dakota Dunes) tells the Sioux City Journal he will formally ask the Lincoln…
Why would a good progressive liberal like me cheer the primary victory of Stace Nelson, a right-wingnut whose anti-tax, anti-government, anti-public education, anti-abortion extremism would wreak chaos…
A Democratic friend looks at the arrest of Garretson schools business manager Rodney Bernard Fischer and wonders why we aren’t hearing Republicans proposing legislation to ban male school…
District 19 Republican candidate for House ReGina Osborn is robocalling GOP voters across her district to alert them to what she calls “fraud” by her primary opponents:…