The fight for the SDGOP nomination for Secretary of State may be more interesting than the primary battle for the Senate nomination. Just when I thought Assistant Secretary Patricia Miller's announcement and endorsements signaled that the GOP was ready to…
Posts tagged as “Chris Nelson”
I worked with a Dakota Rural Action committee to advocate a net-metering policy this year in Pierre. The Public Utilities Commission joined the industry in killing that proposal. In a fit of reactionary wagon-fixing, Public Utilities Commissioner Chris Nelson is…
Dr. Blanchard takes a moment to post the results of Nielson Brothers' last poll of the 2012 South Dakota election. In the U.S. House race, Rep. Kristi Noem still leads Matt Varilek 49.3% to 43.6%. Noem still shows no clear…
Black Hills State University homecoming celebrants paraded through Spearfish today. Naturally, a number of politicians scooted along looking for votes. No, no, no. Real politicians, like Public Utilities Commissioner Kristie Fiegen, who was working really hard to get her truck…
In conjunction with its annual conference in Deadwood last month, the South Dakota Telecommunications Association hosted a forum with four of the five candidates for Public Utilities Commission. I would have loved to have covered the meeting live, as I…
Hey, look at that! Public Utilities Commission candidate Nick Nemec posted the complete video of last Saturday's State Fair PUC candidates' debate in Huron, South Dakota: Now the South Dakota Farmers Union hosted this debate, so according to Rep. Kristi…
Asked why she's skipping the traditional State Fair debate, hosted this year by the South Dakota Farmers Union, Rep. Kristi Noem answers with a typical run-on sentence: We're still considering debates and looking at them but we're going to make…
Last week I mentioned CenturyLink's receipt of $35 million from the FCC's Connect America Fund to expand rural broadband as an example of Uncle Sam fulfilling one of Adam Smith's proper roles of government: providing basic services that the private…