Archive for December, 2005
IN THE YEAR 2010……
It sounds like the cheesy tag line from a 1960’s futuristic or post-apocalyptic tale. But as the close to my series of articles this week taking a look back at the prior year and a preview of what’s to come, it’s really fitting.
I hadn’t intended to do one on this until this morning. And the [...]
This just might be worth a trip to Rapid City.The Napoli, Haverly and Apa show!
Hey - anybody from Pierre want to go to this? This looks like it could beat the pants off of the Pierre Crackerbarrel any day of the week.
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Senator Bill Napoli, District 35 is announcing that a special meeting will be held Wednesday January 4th, 6:30 PM at the New Rapid [...]
What the hell is Smurfing? But don’t bother me with it now, I have a cold.
From KELOland.com:
One frustrated South Dakota lawmaker isn’t surprised by the “smurfing” incident in Sioux Falls. State senator Stanford Adelstien hopes to make South Dakota’s current law on pseudoephedrine tougher.
Adelstein says cracking down on how often and how much pseudoephedrine people can buy could help with South Dakota’s meth problem. He says results of a law [...]
The Pre-files are here! The Pre-files are here!
Just shy of two dozen measures have been pre-filed with the Legislative Research Council, and can be viewed here. The lions’ share are committee bills, although there is a measure filed by Senator Kloucek “to establish certain air quality standards for hydrogen sulfide and to provide for their application to livestock facilities.”
Probably the best part [...]
2006 SDWC predictions - the leaky 8-ball says…
This is the third in a series of posts designed to allow me maximum family time over the holidays, meaning I’m emphasizing quality over quantity of postings. It’s meant to generate discussion, comments and general buzz.
Anyway, now that we’ve visited the ghosts of the year’s political past, what is the future year going to hold? [...]
SDWC’s top 10 political personalities of 2005
Damn, this was a tough list to come up with. I’m not just talking a little tough. I’m talking major league, going back and forth, and questioning if I should bring in outside experts.
How does one decide who the top ten political personalities are for a given year? What is the quality that makes someone [...]
SDWC’s Top Ten South Dakota Political Stories of 2005
I see the AP listed their top ten stories of 2005. Curiously enough, I had already begun to compile my top ten list of politically related stories for the year, and was much of the way through this when theirs came out.
This had been my Christmas weekend project so I had a big long article [...]
Rosenthal on the Herseth Race
SDWC classes are slowly getting back up to speed after the christmas holidays, as students register for Spring semester classes… okay, the college comparisons are a little lame.
I’m back from the holiday, and I did get a cool Swiss-Tech USB drive/pliers little tool on a keyring from Santa.
Otherwise the only thing politically interesting that [...]
And a little lump of coal for your stockings as well..
The J.A.I.L. Amendment has also been certified for the ballot, as per the Rapid City Journal:
Secretary of State Chris Nelson said Thursday that he verified enough signatures to place a proposed constitutional amendment on next year’s ballot that would strip judges of immunity from lawsuits over decisions they make. Nelson said [...]
A Christmas Message from the South Dakota War College
There has been much debate on the news, and the Internet, and on South Dakota web logs about a perceived assault on Christmas. There’s as much debate as to whether there IS an assault on Christmas as there is about what the assault is made up of.
Let me state for the electronic record; I don’t [...]
Saturday in the park, not the legislature.
Seth over at CCK has an interesting post on the fact that this year, it’s unusual where there will not be any Saturday Legislative days.
He calls on Governor Rounds to alleviate this, but last I knew, it’s the LRC’s Executive Board comprised of Republicans and Democrats that makes this call, not the Governor.
I’d have [...]
Upcoming GOP Events
The Fall River County Republicans are holding a pre-legislative session social featuring South Dakota Right to Life Director, and State Senator Brock Greenfield on the evening of January 7th in Hot Springs. The Hot Springs Star also reported that State Senator Bill Napoli will be there, in addition to the district’s legislators; Senator Jim Lintz, [...]
Casey at bat in Sioux Falls?
Dave Kranz is reporting this morning in his column that Republican Representative Casey Murschel might be looking at running for Sioux Falls Mayor against former legislator Dave Munson.
“I’m thinking about thinking about it,” she said Wednesday. “I don’t mean to be coy about it. Some people have visited with me about it, and I said [...]
Just a few notes on happenings of the day…
Pierre Crackerbarrel coming on January 7th
Yesterday, the Pierre Chamber of Commerce sent out a notice of the first local Crackerbarrel:
Legislative Cracker Barrel On Saturday, January 7th, 2006, our 3 local legislators (State Senator Bob Gray, State Representative Tim Rounds, and State Representative Ryan Olson) will be offering a Cracker Barrel for the public at the [...]
A nice little endorsement for S.T.O.P. (and maybe it’s not so little)
There’s a press release that went out today from the Black Hills Home Builders Association. And it just happens to be endorsing Senator Bill Napoli’s newly christened “Amendment D” (more casually known as the STOP measure.)
Here’s the release for your review:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Janette McIntyre, Executive Vice President [...]
Dems are showing signs of life
I’m starting to get more reports from the field on candidates. Allegedly, Democrats in District 30 not only have a full slate of legislative candidates, but reports in the last two week indicate that they might even have a legislative primary.
This report comes just on the heels of their second statewide contender (Steve Kolbeck for [...]
Aw Mom, Constitutional Amendments for dinner again?
Coming on the heels of S.T.O.P., J.A.I.L. & Gerry Lange’s failed Corporate Income Tax Constitutional Amendment, according to Bob Mercer, the South Dakota Retailers are going to bring one of their own.
But it’s not on taxes, it’s on State Government competing with private business.
Apparently they are working with State Senator Lee Schoenbeck on a measure [...]
Bill Napoli’s Validation, and Chris Nelson is looking mighty pretty nowadays..
A big e-mail went out statewide tonight from State Senator Bill Napoli. In reading the content of the e-mail, I think he’s feeling pretty pumped up .
WE ARE ON THE BALLOT!!!!!WE HAVE JUST BEEN CERTIFIED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE.
WE ARE “AMENDMENT D” AND WE WILL VOTE “YES” ON NOVEMBER 7TH TO STABILIZE [...]
My Kind of Poll
Scott Hudson over at Rant-a-bit has a hilarious poll on choosing who the hottest TV reporter is. Go over and give him your opinion.
Read it all at http://dakotawarcollege.blogspot.com - South Dakota’s Best Political Website.
The PUC battle begins with snipers.
I should have known it was inevitable.
I had simply pointed out that Democrat Steve Kolbeck was running for the Public Utilities Commission, why he thought he should be elected, and that he took a little poke at his opponent as a political appointee.
And then the “students” on both sides of the aisle in the SD [...]
