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Up Next. Opinion. Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists. January 2, 2019. In December, I wrote an article on a particularly egregious case of the famous legislative "revolving door." After sixteen years in the South Dakota Legislature, Senator Deb…

County Road T. A friend of mine who was mayor of Sioux Falls, South Dakota some years back likes to hum the theme from the old Green Acres television show when he sees me. For those readers who missed this Golden Age of mid-1960’s television, the sitcom plot…

announcements went under the radar because the lack of media coverage: Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, IndianaJulian Castro, former Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and former HUD SecretaryJohn Delaney, former Maryland congressman and businessmanTulsi…

primary law, and today, in South Dakota's congressional primaries, Democrats allow unaffiliated voters to participate, whereas Republicans require sworn affiliation to their party 15 days prior to an election. 13. Both parties receive considerable subsidies from…

The same year the Missouri Chamber of Commerce funded the campaign against the Clean Missouri Act, fixing campaign finance and ethics loopholes and ending gerrymandering. And in North Dakota, the main opponents to the 2018 “voters’ right to know…

Up Next. Open Primaries. Former Republican US Rep. Sues South Carolina GOP for Cancelling 2020 Presidential Primary. October 1, 2019. Two South Carolina voters, including a former US congressman, have filed a lawsuit against the South Carolina Republican…

Up Next. Campaigns. South Carolina Judge Says GOP Can Deny Voters Primary; Trump Considers Ditching Debates. December 16, 2019. A South Carolina judge last week. dismissed a lawsuit against the state’s Republican Party. over its decision to cancel a 2020…

representatives will govern.”. In North Dakota, a team of “badass grandmas” led a campaign to enact sweeping anti-corruption measures that promote greater transparency and accountability in the state government. “I think we cleverly packaged a label, a…

500,000, were African Americans, 90 percent of whom were enslaved and living south of the Chesapeake.". In the book's preface, Ellis writes that as "Lincoln described them, the founders thought of slavery as a cancer they could not surgically remove…

Up Next. Campaigns. EGGstravagent: The White House Gears Up For 141st Easter Egg Roll. April 17, 2019. On Monday, the South lawn of the White House will host the 141st version of the egg roll that began in 1878 under the Administration of President…