Heck, the Madville Times works as well as FOIA! Donald Pay's posting here that Daugaard Administration might be angling to bring a nuclear waste dump to South Dakota got some attention in Pierre. Sioux Falls paper says Governor Daugaard is…
Posts tagged as “democracy”
We're getting what feels like a lot of churn in the Legislature, and it's not even an election year. In the last couple months, four three* legislators have chosen not to complete the terms to which their neighbors elected them…
The Guardian looks across the pond and finds the Colonies' State of the Union addresses getting "dumber": Those bubbles show the relative word counts of each State of the Union address (which before FDR was called the President's Annual Message…
While the South Dakota Legislature tinkers with our fundamentally regressive sales tax and considers changes to our property tax that tie farmers' tax bill to their potential wealth rather than their real ability to pay, the mostly progressive and sensible…
Partisan redistricting has made Congress more radically partisan and less functional. In a system where the parties in power draw the boundaries, legislators choose their voters instead of voters choosing their representatives. We get the same phenomenon in South Dakota,…
Senate Bill 70, Governor Dennis Daugaard's omnibus bill to reform South Dakota's burgeoning corrections system, received strong approval from the full Senate yesterday. Only two senators voted no on vague concerns about growing government. Some of my crankier Republican friends…
A commenter last week got me thinking about South Dakotans' political maturity and capability. We put three measures on our 2012 ballot by petition, then voted all three down. We killed two really bad ideas from the Governor and one…