State Senator Dan Lederman got his friends Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem to join him in his hyperbolic, government- and environment-loathing lie that the perfectly sensible Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs conservation area plan is a dangerous federal…
Posts tagged as “insurance”
I'm undecided and taking input on the "any willing provider" initiative. Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers obliges with commentary that matches a sentiment I've heard in my comment section: we need an "any willing provider" to challenge monopoly power in…
During my tenure on the Lake Herman Sanitary District board, our single biggest budget item was our insurance policy through the South Dakota Public Assurance Alliance, a policy that, to my knowledge, the district has never used. What does Lake…
Mitchell Christian School superintendent Reverend Joseph Fox wants to be a school gunslinger. Burke superintendent Erik Person says having gunslingers in school is stupid and hairbrained (no, really, Person used those words): "It's one of the stupidest ideas I've ever…
What? ObamaCare is working? For New Yorkers buying their own insurance on the perilous individual market, you bet: Individuals buying health insurance on their own will see their premiums tumble next year in New York State as changes under the…
Unwilling to shoulder responsibility for her legislative failure, Congresswoman Kristi Noem is peddling the fantasy that President Barack Obama caused the House to vote down the Farm Bill yesterday: Noem told reporters that House leaders believed they had enough votes…
School and Public Lands Commissioner Jarrod Johnson recognizes how the federal crop insurance program (which crop insurance salesman's wife Kristi Noem wants to expand) causes farmers to plow up land that's better for other uses than crops. Now South Dakota…
Some dairy producers want federal insurance comparable to the subsidized insurance farmers get for crops. Congresswoman Kristi Noem, whose husband sells that crop insurance for a living, wants livestock producers to get a more reliable slurp at the federal teat…