When Will Legislature Hold Special Session to Expel? Here's another one Dakota War College won't touch: Representative Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) has been publicly censured for illegal activity as state's attorney of Fall River County in 2008. The multiple wrongdoings…
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The two prisoners who killed South Dakota penitentiary guard Ron Johnson stretch my opposition to the death penalty to the breaking point. (I won't do them the legal courtesy of declaring their crime "alleged.") They are dangerous and seemingly incorrigible.…
Update: We still haven't passed a state budget. Mandy at DakotaWomen reports that our legislators are running scared from Rep. Phil Jensen's major screw-up of HB 1171, the now nationally known "shoot the doc" abortion bill. HB 1171 started as…
Beer worth $1000? Let's hope that's what firefighter Scott Johnson and other Madison devotees of barley pop are asking themselves following Johnson's DUI sentencing yesterday. Judge Tim Tucker refrained from giving jail time, but he slapped Johnson with nearly $1000…
Last week I noted the difference in fiscal politics between Minnesota and South Dakota. That essay arose from a conversation with my neighbor and outgoing state legislator Gerry Lange. In the following guest column, he exapnds the view to include…