When we celebritize our politics, we end up with an idiot as President. With that caution in mind, I note that celebrity Jimmy Kimmel, who is speaking out on…
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Rep. Kristi Noem and just enough other House Republicans voted to take Medicaid away from special education students, make insurance more expensive for women who’ve been raped,…
Gordon Howie bemoans the expansion of food stamps and taxes under the governorship of his fellow Republicans Dennis Daugaard and Marion Michael Rounds. Just short of 100,000…
An eager reader notices Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s (R-12/Sioux Falls) hypocrisy on funding state functions with unhealthy habits. Speaker Mickelson says there’s no way he’ll support…
Just home from the Capitol, Representative Drew Dennert sat down this evening with Dakota Free Press to talk about Veto Day. The freshman Republican and I talk…
Do millionaires move to take advantage of lower state tax rates? Yes, but not much, says this 2016 study in the American Sociological Review. Stanford researchers…
Self-employed South Dakota musician and Affordable Care Act Marketplace policyholder Jon Hegg lends his voice to an AARP video urging Congress to scrap the Republican ACA…
Governor Dennis Daugaard scratched his veto itch today. Stricken by the Governor’s pen today were these five bills: House Bill 1156: This bill would have allowed individuals with…
Al Novstrup didn’t get the $39-million property tax increase he wanted, but he did vote to raise property tax on farmers. Check out Senate Bill 35,…
The SDGOP spin machine is really working hard to deflect the Club for Growth’s criticism of Rep. Kristi Noem for not firmly opposing the Trumpy Border Adjustment Tax.…