A paragraph should have a topic sentence and sentences that support it. Here's what passes for a paragraph in the Rapid City Journal as Michael Sanborn warns Brendan Johnson and Kristi Noem not to challenge their respective party front-runners in…
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Let's see, just checking... DWC recycles its Brendan Johnson obsession twice this Sunday... revisits the "Kristi's so brave for calling school lunch bad" meme... ...huh, but nothing about that Sioux Falls paper's banner story about the Republican primary that DWC's…
As Senator Tim Johnson confirms the open playing field we've been assuming for quite some time, a well-funded out-of-state conservative PAC puts some teeth in the threat to the GOP machine's hope that achievementless former Governor M. Michael Rounds would…
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…
Pat Powers can't bring himself to say anything about Rep. Kristi Noem's vote with a minority of House Republicans for the fiscal cliff deal other than to call her justification of it "interesting." Joel Rosenthal offers a little more insight...…
Pat Powers predictably megaphones Seth Tupper's essay about whether Mike Rounds should make an issue of Tim Johnson's health in the 2014 Senate campaign. Sensitivities and sympathies do not change the practical fact that perceptions of Senator Johnson's health and…