Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers is all about hemp. His advocacy for industrial hemp and his consumption of hemp dietary supplements earn derision from my opportunist-conservative counterpart in the blogosphere. But if backing hemp makes a candidate crazy, then bring…
Posts published in February 2014
Keystone XL: Resist with all the love in your heart. Resist for the Badlands, the good land, all the land, our land, Our land only to give to our children and their children. Love, love, resist with love. Resist with…
Pat's mad that gubernatorial candidate Lora Hubbel doesn't Tweet more. Maybe he could take it up with her personally at her next public campaign event, Tuesday, February 18, at Tinner's at 69th and Minnesota in Sioux Falls. Hubbel says she's…
Mr. Ehrisman notes that Sanford Health is helping South Dakota women maintain access to safe, legal abortions... in North Dakota: A Dakotas-based health care system has granted hospital-admitting privileges to doctors at North Dakota's sole abortion provider, which would bring…
Senate Bill 46, this year's animal cruelty bill, is cruising through the Legislature. Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources passed it unanimously on Tuesday; the full Senate gave SB 46 the same favor on Thursday. False fears of evil out-state animal…
The Yankton Press and Dakotan conducted an online poll Thursday. Skipping the baloney, they went right to the question of whom voters would support in a three-way Senate race. The results show a tantalizing three-way split: Mike Rounds 34.7% Rick…
The new Legislative Incarceration Fiscal Impact Statements offer some instructive commentary on this year's tedious anti-abortion grandstanding from our state legislators. House Bill 1162 bans sex-selective abortions. HB 1240 bans abortion due to Down Syndrome. HB 1241 bans abortions that…
House Judiciary hoghoused HB 1177, the distracted driving bill this week. Legislators kept the "We're not really Republicans!" part about trumping local control with state authority: HB 1177 now deems the Legislature "the exclusive regulator of all matters relating to…