Mike Reardon is back! The Rapid City musician filed 140 signatures last week to run as an Independent for District 34 House. Reardon now contends with two incumbent Republicans—the data-driven David Lust and Dan Dryden—and Democrat John C. Willman. Reardon…
Posts tagged as “Pierre”
I'm sure I'm not the first to offer this observation, but as a French teacher, I can't let it pass. I'm staying this weekend at the luxurious Pierre Best Western Ramkota, where I am happily judging the 102nd South Dakota…
Here's a question for my friends in Pierre: would you like to buy your neighbor a plane ticket? It's obvious a lot of you Pierre readers don't buy plane tickets for yourselves. Delta Airlines considers Pierre an "underperforming market" and…
The State Department is conducting public meetings up and down the Great Plains on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Secretary Clinton's people will hold their South Dakota meeting this Thursday, September 29, 2011, at the Pierre Ramkota,…
I yield the floor to my colleague from Winner, who suggests the proper use of federal funds in flood assistance in the Pierre&ndashaquaplex: The only money the federal government should dump into Pierre and Ft. Pierre should be for moving…
Hey, you know that guy Rep. Kristi Noem is bringing here, Rep. John Mica from Florida, to talk flooding in Pierre on Friday? He tried to kill some South Dakota airports this summer. Remember that Federal Aviation Administration shutdown that…
Dakota War College mumbled something about history repeating itself. Rather than thinking of the 1960s, we should hope more for a repeat of the 1980s—specifically, 1985, when more than 5000 farmers marched on Pierre to demand action from the Legislature.…
The tickets for Governor-Elect Dennis Daugaard's balls are $25 a pop. Not bad for hanging out with swanky people and live music. For a different kind of balls, you can squeeze into the Capitol Rotunda for free at noon on…