Rep. Kristi Noem releases a year-in-review column. She leads with her son's growth of three inches, then reels off several other "achievements" for which she deserves little if any credit. Rep. Noem trumpets the "long-awaited" Farm Bill and says she…
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Didn't we ban earmarks? You wouldn't know it from the appropriations bill groaning through Congress. Senator Tim Johnson highlights a provision that will keep the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's national fisheries archive at the D.C. Booth National Fish Hatchery…
Governor Dennis Daugaard deserves all the guff we can give him for reneging on his no-new-taxes promise to consider a gasoline-tax increase. Acknowledging that we don't spend enough on our roads and bridges is an important repudiation of the Republican…
Speaking of smoking dope, Congress appears determined to spend more on military equipment that the military does not want: The House panel that decides defense spending came out with a $570 billion blueprint Thursday that spares the USS George Washington…
The Common Good Film Series brings Inequality for All to Brookings on January 21, 2014. In this documentary, economic intellectual dynamo Robert Reich explains rising income inequality and its effect on the American economy and democracy. Go see it! See…
John Tsitrian, who knows more about high finance than I do, reads the Citigroup-written derivatives bill that Rep. Kristi Noem voted for a couple weeks ago and says, lighten up! Yes, H.R. Bill 992 was crafted by the financial institutions…
Rep. Kristi Noem is working hard in Washington, reaching across the aisles to support her long-standing effort to tackle tough issues like naming the bison the national mammal: Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) proposed the bill, H.R. 3400, along with…