This winter, the South Dakota Legislature passed House Bill 1087, the fear- and hype- and gun-worship-driven school gunslinger bill. Since passage of that law, we've had one school shooting (an incident in which a teenager was horsing around outside with…
Posts published in June 2013
I read in Saturday's Black Hills Pioneer (print edition only, alas!) that the Spearfish Regional Hospital got an A in the Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Score. That's the only A in Leapfrog's roster of South Dakota hospitals surveyed. I am…
The truth is out there... in the typography! After weeks of public outcry (or maybe just a couple snarky blog posts), the Rick Weiland Senate campaign has finally come to its senses (or just gotten around to item #87 on…
The SDGOP spin machine read this Politico article and crowed that Rep. Kristi Noem had "chewed some major butt with House GOP leadership" over their failure to pass the Farm Bill. Not quoted was the portion of the Politico article…
Facebook friend and Brookings product Matt Hildreth points me toward Livability.com's list of the top ten small towns in America. Spearfish doesn't make the list, but the Spearfish of East River, Brookings, places fifth! Brookings might have been first if…
In his ongoing persecution complex, Gordon Howie claims he's one of the conservatives targeted by the IRS for "additional scrutiny" of a request for non-profit status: One of the organizations I run, The Faith and Family Foundation, applied for a…
Rep. Kristi Noem's latest fundraising e-mail says she'll face a "certain onslaught of negative ads" for "supporting spending cuts." Rick Weiland is a Democrat. Will he face negative ads if he supports the spending cuts proposed by the Obama Administration…
Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) is having all sorts of fun shaking up conservative Republican sensibilities this week. First he declares his conversion to opposing the death penalty. Now he calls for state inspection of carnival rides: "What's going…