The comment section here moves pretty quickly. Some comments deserve a headline of their own. Today's example: Senator Stan Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) reads my account of Rep. Stace Nelson's (R-25/19 Fulton) community organizing to stop the Hanson County Dairy and…
Posts tagged as “Dennis Daugaard”
I've tried to explain to Governor Dennis Daugaard that the fact that South Dakota teachers and students have managed to maintain consistent, better-than-average student achievement even as schools are asked to do more work is pretty impressive. Obviously the Governor…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has shown his bipartisan stripes by appointing a Democrat to the state Board of Minerals and Environment. Unfortunately, that Democrat is Doyle Karpen. The Union County Commission chairman, who faced no challenge for his seat on that…
I am happy to have three current sponsors in the Madville Times sidebar. Mike Knudson of District 12 and Charlie Johnson of District 8 are advertising here because they are running for Legislature this fall. Rutland School is advertising here…
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned President Obama's White House kitchen garden and wondered if our self-reliance-loving Governor Dennis Daugaard had any such veggies sprouting from his gubernatorial grounds. Sho-'nuff: That's four cages of tomatoes (cage #3 shows a couple…
Deaf LGBT activists are feeling spanked by the National Association of the Deaf. Let's review: earlier this year, Governor Dennis Daugaard had an invitation to speak at the NAD's biennial conference in Louisville, Kentucky, in July. Deaf LGBT activists expressed…
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…