Rasmussen Reports must be getting numbers Karl Rove doesn't like on the GOP Presidential race. Today RR diverts our attention with a poll on---urp!---Charlie Sheen. Pile that on top of three Charlie references in today's Senate debate on HB 1255,…
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Friday I listed members of the South Dakota House who receive federal farm subsidies. My list includes only those farmers listed by name and perhaps misses subsidies to various corporations of which legislators may be a part. Now here's the…
House Bill 1141 has been hoghoused from a gentle little bill specifying a timeframe for ballot printing and absentee voting into one of the linchpins of the South Dakota Legislative session. The new bill, as amended by Senator Cooper Garnos…
Eager commenter Jana asks a reasonable question: as our legislators preach austerity and self-reliance, how many of them are benefiting from farm subsidies from Uncle Sam? We all know Subsidy Queen Kristi Noem creams her former colleagues in Pierre in…
The Madison Daily Leader ran this letter to the editor on education funding from my Orland neighbor Charlie Johnson: What is more unnerving than reduced funding for K-12 education? Answer-a governor proposing a 10% cut in K-12 funding. Reality tells…
Our man Hunter must be pulling our leg. An eager reader notes that MDL's Tuesday editorial on the recent spelling bee and the state of the mother tongue includes this passage (as usual, I quote verbatim): We don't think using…
Think hard, Dennis.... Governor Dennis Daugaard says he's "inclined to sign" HB 1217, the abortion coercive-counseling and three-day-wait bill that cleared the South Dakota Senate yesterday: I think the merits of the bill are in their encouragement to women, especially…
From my friends (and yours!) at the South Dakota ACLU, in the wake of the South Dakota Senate's appalling, misogynist approval of HB 1217: Unprecedented South Dakota Law Creates Major Obstacles For Women's Health State Legislature Approves Law That Creates…