District 8 was only at two-thirds strength at Tuesday's brief gathering of the Legislature for the Governor's budget address. Rep. Scott Parsley (D-8/Madison) and Rep. Leslie Heinemann (R-8/Flandreau) made it to Pierre, but District 8's Senate seat remains vacant. Former…
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The Republican revolving door spins happily around Heartland Consumers Power District in Madison. As lifelong patronage beneficiary and former state senator Russell Olson advances to CEO of Heartland, he brings in Richard Benda to take his spot as Heartland's economic…
A group of randomly selected Lake County citizens will troop to the courthouse tomorrow to see if they win a seat on the jury for Daniel Willard's robocall trial, which will treat them to lengthy discourses on South Dakota campaign…
The bad news: academically underachieving Russell Olson has ridden his lifelong trajectory of Prostrollo-Janklow patronage to a new height of wealth and power, ascending to the CEO-ship of Heartland Consumers Power District. The good news: Russ is leaving the South…
Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth) has regularly shown his failure to understand the usefulness of the Internet. But he's showing signs of coming around. He recently unblocked me from his Twitter account. And now he acknowledges that the South Dakota blogosphere…
One of the more useless bits of gun-nut flotsam gurgling around Pierre went down the drain last week. Senate Joint Resolution 3 would have put to voters the following change to Article VI, Section 24 of our state constitution: §…
Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth) enjoyed his beer in his youth. he evidently doesn't want to make it any harder for today's kids to party with a few cold ones, either. A couple weeks ago, he voted with his fellow GOP…
I want to be more positive about government. I need to be, to counter the Libertarian extremism that seeps into too much of our common civil discourse. But knowing that this year's South Dakota Legislature has dispersed from Pierre for…