We're going to court. We, all South Dakotans, will pay taxes to pay Marty Jackley to go to court and tell six same-sex couples (and all their compadres rooting for them around the state), "Your love ain't right." I'd rather…
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...and do it with apps! Cody Hausman spoke to the Sioux Falls Democratic Forum last Friday on behalf of his generation. The son of Brandon City Councilwoman and 2012 District 9 House candidate Jo Hausman discussed how Democrats (and any…
Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis officiated at the wedding of two South Dakotans Saturday: “Congratulations to this fabulous couple. Twenty-seven years together. Twenty-seven years of family. Twenty-seven years of love and commitment,” Mayor Betsy Hodges said at the ceremony. Nancy…
Kudos to Ken Santema for making the drive out to Ipswich for Monday's District 23 GOP House candidates forum. His summary of the candidates' responses to audience questions is a useful guide for voters in the sparse but sprawling north…
The South Dakota Democratic Party continues to signal that 2014 may not be a year of Blue Dog campaigning. Party chair Deb Knecht bases her latest fundraising pitch on a declaration of support for Nancy Robrahn and Jennie Rozenkranz's pending…
Five years ago, Iowa's Supreme Court overturned that state's same-sex marriage ban. A couple dozen states face lawsuits challenging various forms of anti-gay discrimination, now bolstered by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year that the Defense of Marriage Act…
Two gay guys walk into a bar. "Drinks all around, barkeep!" they shout. "We just got married!" "No, sirs," responds the barkeep, pointing to the Christ-on-velvet over the jukebox. "We don't serve your kind here. Jesus says so." Alas, the…
Jonathan Ellis digs into Richard Benda's personal life in today's Sioux Falls paper. Ellis paints a man of high ambition and intensity—"really high strung," says Watertown lawyer Lee Schoenbeck—with mounting personal troubles. Wind power promoter Steve Wegman says Benda came…