A South Dakota Moderate

In 2006 many, myself excluded, thought that the voters in South Dakota had put the idea of banning abortions to bed. At the time, many thought that the voters had spoken and we could now move on to working on other issues facing our residents like teacher pay etc. Fast forward to 2008 and we [...]

I know I said posting would be light but I just had to comment on this before leaving
One Tim Johnson press release you probably won’t be reading on Badlands Blue is in regards to his vote yesterday to gut the Fourth Amendment and allow the government to invade our privacy. Johnson was one of 18 [...]

I have often wondered how someone could write about the general lack of importance of most political blogs while running a blog that touches on politics themselves like one of our more popular bloggers David Newquist does from time to time on his blog. Being someone that blogs about political news but in no way [...]

The NCAA’s fight with the University of North Dakota over their mascot has been settled finally, in a court of law. The university has agreed to get tribal approval to use the “Fighting Sioux” nickname and mascot or be forced to change it if that approval isn’t given within the next 3 years. Why is [...]

Al Gore has taken a lot of heat in his political career, you know that terrible campaign he ran in 2000 that resulted in him pretty much giving the election to George Bush (though the Supreme Court had a little to do with that as well) and that whole inventing the internet thing but he [...]

The Argus Leader has always been a lightening rod for criticism. Its editors have been slammed for just about everything from ignoring the Hildebrand-Tewes embezzlement scandal, after they broke it by the way, to the latest blog scandal which involves ignoring the book written by super secret Thune paid former blogger Jon Lauck. His book [...]

Each day I keep hoping that the final vote on the abortion ban last fall would put that issue to rest, at least for a little while. Unfortunately a failed attempt to resurrect the ban during last winter’s legislative session, threats to bring it up again next January, and the state’s continued attempts to get [...]

Frontier Airlines is set to announce today the first round of airports that they will be moving into and Sioux Falls Regional is one of over 6o airports shooting for them to come to town. To lure them here the Airport Authority has offered $250,000 in revenue guarantees, free landing and facilities rental fees and [...]

A story I missed a few days ago had some early returns from the $1.00 a pack increase on cigarettes. According to the article sales are down 25% but tax revenues are up over 100% with over $22.5 million collected in the first 5 months of the year. The article goes on to say that [...]

An op-ed piece in the Argus details the outrage being displayed by residents around 41st and Sycamore in Sioux Falls over a new business that recently won approval to commence construction from the city council. Is it a halfway house for recently paroled imates? Maybe a homeless shelter? Or how about a drug and alcohol [...]

Cross posted from an article I wrote on The Super Blog Directory
I was constantly looking for ways to get people to visit my sites. One way that I came across was a program called traffic exchange. Traffic exchange sites are sites that you submit your blog to that give you points for surfing other blogs [...]

I have been spending much of the past few weeks away from blogging in order to catch up on work and family time but with a new year and new legislative session on the horizon I thought it would be a good idea to throw out some priorities that we all should consider for the [...]