The latest Madville Times poll asked you, gentle readers, which South Dakotans would be the strongest Dem and GOP candidates for Senate in 2014. 215 of you weighed in on the Democratic choices; 206 of you checked a Republican. That's…
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Disclosure: I work for Bernie Hunhoff... sort of. He lets me write on his South Dakota Magazine website. My pay: the warm glow of associating with South Dakota's best monthly publication. (That's actually a pretty good deal!) That said, Rep.…
Excellent! The 2012 Legislative campaign is going exactly as I planned. By placing three significant policy issues on the ballot, we voters have forced legislative candidates to talk about real substantial questions about our priorities in Pierre. Nathan Johnson reports…
Rep. Bernie Hunhoff (D-19/Yankton) held a press conference Thursday to spotlight big campaign contributions to South Dakota Republicans. He and the South Dakota Democratic Party found that corporate directors who donate to Republicans get a great return on their investment.…
Sibby notes with approval, as do I, House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff's critique of South Dakota's faux frugality. Rep. Hunhoff says Governor Dennis Daugaard is making undue ado over his administration's ability to fulfill the same legal obligation to balance…
Lots of my Democrat friends are knocking the Governor's celebration of not just balancing the state budget (again, as we always do, by law) but running a $47.8-million surplus. House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff notes that the "achievement" of piling…
Some public officials shun and denigrate blogs and other social media. Some of these blog-wary officials may simply be unfamiliar with the technology; others (like, I speculate, members of the Madison Central School District board and administration) are stung by…
Even as he proposes 10% cuts to education, Medicaid, and other vital social services, Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to extend handouts to big corporations, in hopes of drawing more business to the state. (That bill, HB 1230, is on the…