If you want a society that is free and vibrant and successful, part of that formula is the free flow of information, of ideas, and that requires a free press. A free press is a foundation for any democracy. -Barack Obama Are Bloggers Really Journalists? The main stream media, the blogoshere, the courts, and various […]
Attorney General Jackley Urges Consumers To Participate in National Consumer Protection Week PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley is urging South Dakota consumers to take time, especially during this week’s National Consumer Protection Week observance, to safeguard their personal and financial information. National Consumer Protection is today (Monday) through Saturday. Government agencies, […]
WEEKLY ROUND[S] UP JANUARY 8-21, 2024 Welcome to the first Weekly Round[s] Up of 2024! I was grateful to be back home in South Dakota for a couple of weeks, making visits to Mission and Sioux Falls and spending time in the Pierre and Fort Pierre area with family for Christmas. Now that the Senate […]
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 […]
The Dakota Scout is reporting this afternoon that, after the dust has settled, former Dakota News Now reporter Austin Goss ended up with monetary penalties and an apology after spoofing Governor Kristi Noem’s phone number in a crank call to GOP Chair (at the time) Dan Lederman. As part of the plea arraignment and sentence, […]
With yesterday’s efforts to mitigate the damage done to herself, as Julie Frye-Mueller insists on defending herself, it brings up a question as to whether her efforts are dragging down the standing of her few allies in the legislature. Yesterday’s press conference where Sen. Tom Pichke took the lead in defending his seatmate Julie Frye-Mueller […]
It’s a few days early, but on Sunday, South Dakota War College will be 18 years old. As far as blogs go, with a typical life of 2 years, in comparison Dakotawarcollege is practically an octogenarian. Methuselah, even. It’s hard to wrap my arms around the concept of this lasting 18 years. This website is just a […]
Try not to throw up when you read this. After claiming to be independent, Larry Pressler now wants to pretend to be Republican again, and wrote an editorial in the Dakota Scout declaring he wants to reclaim the Republican Party. My response to earlier iterations of this fiasco was to briefly leave the Republican Party. […]
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 […]
Repeating what I noted in part 1, If we could assign any broad overall themes to the top ten political stories of the year, I would argue there are two that are obvious. The first and more prevalent theme I would apply is simply “conflict.” There was conflict within the GOP. There was conflict between the […]