Vote now in the latest Madville Times double-feature poll: Who do you think would be the strongest candidates for the Democrats and the Republicans to run for the U.S. Senate seat Tim Johnson is vacating? Click your faves for both…
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I've written up Senator Stanford Adelstein's case for Senate Bill 82, his proposal to put all statewide offices on the primary ballot and to change the election for secretary of state. In a nutshell, the bill recognizes that the Web…
South Dakota has two tracks for nominating candidates for statewide office. Folks who want to be governor or go to Congress go through the normal primary process, circulating petitions and subjecting themselves to public vote in the spring to win…
Secretary of State Jason Gant has finally done some good. Through his boundless incompetence in office, he has inspired two bills to reform the Secretary of State's office. First, Senator Stan Adelstein offers Senate Bill 81 to prohibit the kind…
American expatriate writer James Baldwin was in Paris when the French lost at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam in 1954. He wrote the following observation in his 1972 book/essay No Name in the Street: The French were still hopelessly slugging…
I spent my weekend hip-deep in spreadsheets. Not a bad weekend. 69.65% of us South Dakotans voted last week's election. Just about one in four of us voters (89,921 out of 368,177) did so early or absentee. Following are the…