Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) took the House floor last Tuesday and argued against the proposal from "our fine Governor" to create captive insurance companies—i.e., state-run, state-funded pools to insure a variety of state facilities. House Bills 1185, 1186, and 1187…
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The South Dakota Legislature holds deep respect for the committee process... until it gets a chance to disrespect public education. While the South Dakota House yesterday insisted on respecting the committee process and refused to resurrect House Bill 1223, the…
Big Ag crowds out pheasants. To restore pheasant numbers and protect South Dakota's shotgun tourism season, Governor Dennis Daugaard proposes more Big Ag, backed with more big government subsidies: "Winter wheat is probably one of the best habitats for pheasants,…
Democrat Rochelle Hagel is running for District 33 House. Really running: the reporter turned salesperson very smartly showed up at Rickstock in Piedmont yesterday with a team of her yellow-shirted campaign volunteers to show support for U.S. Senate candidate Rick…
Bob Mercer will back away from this point as soon as I mention it, but hey: reporter Bob Mercer and Representative Stace Nelson seem to agree that Mike Rounds has no intention of repealing the Affordable Care Act: But tell…
Republican candidate for Governor Lora Hubbel sends out an e-mail that reiterates her standard charge that her primary opponent, Governor Dennis Daugaard, has facilitated the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in South Dakota. Hubbel says that if you'll make…
Jana and I are quite happy to see the Affordable Care Act working just the way we expected to end job lock. We are dismayed to see the media working as we have come to expect, getting the story wrong…
This blog has remained mostly ambivalent toward the "any willing provider" initiative that supporters hope to put on next fall's ballot. Up until last week, I hadn't heard anything about it outside of this little chunk of the blogosphere, either.…