Improving ConnectionsBy Congressman Dusty Johnson BIG Update Often, Native Americans are wrongfully left to pay medical bills owed by the Indian Health Service (IHS) through Purchased/Referred Care claims. Patients then must decide to either pay a bill they don’t personally owe or risk the bill getting sent to debt collectors. In March, I introduced the […]
Well, that’s a new one. Yesterday, the Hand County Republican Party announced the speaker for their Republican Lincoln Day Dinner, a function designed to raise money for the group to conduct election related activities. And, It’s not something I’ve ever seen in 35 years of Republican Party activism. Are they highlighting one of our elected […]
Listening and Following Through by Senate Majority Leader Casey Crabtree MADISON–Wednesday was a pivotal day in the debate on forging a path forward to facilitate value-added agriculture’s future in South Dakota. SB 201 gives money to farmers and counties, not out of state trial lawyers and environmental activists who line their pockets by killing value-added […]
WHO’S AFRAID OF THE PRECINCT PEOPLE? by State Rep. Scott Odenbach (Dist. 31) A bill with the potential to radically change South Dakota’s political landscape has been introduced this session that would throw out our time-tested tradition of choosing statewide candidates. It should be opposed by all those who would preserve our Republican form of […]
I’m sure you’ve seen or heard about the ads that Governor Noem is running in media markets across the country encouraging people to come to South Dakota: Inevitably, the Governor finds herself taking some hits on the ads because they were ran through an out of state firm which happened to have had the successful […]
Maybe I’m not hearing the whole story, but I’m questioning how the PUC could keep any of what someone had to say when a woman from out of state fabricated testimony against the Navigator pipeline to the commission based on a falsified photo. The PUC staff said that all of her testimony should be disqualified […]
Saw this on the Internet today: There’s a depressing set of numbers. From recently published “The Shredding of Midwestern Newspapers”https://t.co/Wa0W6b8uua pic.twitter.com/wSWV2aOtVb — Dᴀɴ Gᴏʟᴅᴇɴ (@_DanGolden) February 27, 2023 According to this, over the last 20 years the number of staff employed by the Argus has been reduced from 65 to 8. Yet in that time, […]
I jumped in late, but it was at a crazy moment. Haugaard keeps insulting Sen. Wheeler, and speaks of mystery witnesses who he won’t name, and aren’t there in the room. He might be able to produce them at 24 or 48 hours. Or not? Nobody really knows. And, as I said, I came in […]
The South Dakota Republican Party is having an internal contest tomorrow as to who will guide the organization at least through the next two year election cycle. Two candidates have offered themselves for serving the members of South Dakota’s Republican Party as chair. One, Former State Representative Tom Brunner, announced that he intended to run […]
Recall the Rick Santorum visit to Pierre a month ago to promote the Convention of States measure they keep trying to push in South Dakota? No. I didn’t either since it received little to no notice in the media. However, I had a reader who went through a video on his speech, as well as some […]