A South Dakota Moderate

Cory over at Madville Times introduces us to a 3rd challenger for the GOP nomination for the U S Senate. Veterinarian Dr. Charles Gonyo joins the race with Sam Kephart and Joel Dykstra whom are looking to challenge Tim Johnson this November. While Cory chooses to focus on Dr Gonyo’s abortion stand, which from what [...]

The AP is reporting that the libel suit against the Argus Leader by Dan Scott could hit the next milestone in the coming few weeks when a circuit judge should decide on whether it will proceed to trial.
A circuit judge says she might issue her decision within a couple of weeks in a libel lawsuit [...]

“Super Tuesday” part III? Continuing with today’s out of touch theme, Governor Mike Rounds tries in vain to prop up the importance of South Dakota’s minuscule number of delegates that are to be awarded during our last in the nation primary.
Rounds told Stateline.org that if either of the two parties’ presidential contests are still undecided [...]

Has the South Dakota Democratic party made a mistake by hiring a Virginian to write the official party blog? I always wondered why it was farmed out to someone out of state and now my blogging buddy Cory is also questioning the decision after the latest flap involving Steve Kirby and the ripping of local [...]

Taxing our “sins” is always an easy way to get more revenue for government. In Ohio and elsewhere they used the “sin” tax to build various stadiums and here in South Dakota we have chosen to greatly increase taxes on at least one sin (another, alcohol is being addressed this year) to help finance government [...]

While I do agree with Lowell over at Badlands Blue who questions Governor Rounds’ refusal to comment on the new code of conduct being worked on for our lawmakers…
C’mon, now, is this really that difficult to comment on? I mean, if the leader of the state can’t even bring himself to say, “YES, we [...]

Governor Mike Rounds continues to confound those looking at a run at Tim Johnson’s Senate seat. This time he has confused one of those seeking to unseat Johnson, Joel Dykstra, when he was discussing the Governors future plans including his thoughts on running against Johnson next year.
During an interview with the Mitchell Daily Republic, Dykstra’s [...]

2008 is shaping up to be just as bad if not worse. Not only is there enough chatter going around to lower the legal drinking age headlined by Bill Napoli to make it onto the Secretary of States page listing possible ballot measures, Roger Hunt and his pals appear poised to put us through another [...]

Real Clear Politics tries to document our 2008 Senate contest. Who’s running, who’s not, and better still, who might be running.
South Dakota is a trickier question. While national Democratic strategists and operatives close to Sen. Tim Johnson insist that he will seek another term, some Democrats are quietly skeptical. They suggest that when the Senator, [...]

It has now been over a month since the Argus broke the $100,000 embezzlement scandal at Hildebrand Tewes (and hasn’t mentioned it since) and almost as long since Steve Hildebrand confirmed the theft and named the person responsible but what has happened since then? Last week I asked someone in the MSM if they had [...]

Roger Hunt’s loophole dancing to avoid having to name the anonymous donor of $750,000 to help proponents of 2006’s abortion ban has been deemed legal according to state law at the time by Circuit Court Judge Kathleen Caldwell.
The decision – received today by the attorney for state Rep. Roger Hunt of Brandon – says that [...]

Wonder why the Argus Leader has been quiet after breaking the Hildebrand Tewes embezzlement scandal? Randell Beck breaks the silence and tells us why.
Case in point: Last month, we first reported on our Web site that an employee of a Sioux Falls firm, Hildebrand Tewes Consulting Inc., had been fired after more than $100,000 turned [...]