I'll admit it: when it comes to child car seats, I'm a Teabagger. I miss the good old days when Mom and Dad could just pile eleven kids in the back of the Bronco and go to Pizza Hut. Pack…
Posts tagged as “safety”
One snarky mention of the comparative risks of mixed martial arts events and pit bulls roused a blogstorm of comments from pit bull owners earlier this week. Pit bull lovers, rain down your rage on Madison. Following one (one) pit…
The Madison City Commission will approve twenty liquor licenses on Monday night. That's one place to buy alcohol for every 320 people. The commission will then take up regulations to ensure that our well-lubricated residents can watch men (and women?)…
The Gooney McBuckshot clan will be a little disappointed: South Dakota cannot claim to have the absolute-worst gun safety laws in the country. According to the Brady Campaign State Scorecard, South Dakota ties with seven other states for the third-lowest…
(I'm still working on uploading video from last night's candidates' forum to the Madville Times YouTube channel. I'll post, embed, and comment on those videos as soon as the whole collection is up!) I'd like to connect two seemingly disparate…
If we're trying to identify the worst idea of the Legislative session, HB 1221 needs to get in line behind 10% budget cuts, corporate welfare, mandatory anti-abortion lectures, the personal gun mandate, and secession. Nonetheless, the stink of bigger turds…
Senate Bill 71, which would ban texting while driving, passed the South Dakota Senate Thursday, 26&ndash9. I noticed that Senator Angie Buhl (D-15/Sioux Falls) was in the Nay column alongside Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth). How could the great liberal hope…
Remember Scott Johnson, the Madison fireman arrested in September for driving the firetruck drunk? His case provoked all sorts of awkward conversation and exposed some ugly attitudes about alcohol in our fair community. But Johnson's case appears not to have…