The South Dakota Standard

Let’s start with the disclosure: I enjoy betting—though I’m too frugal to ever risk more than maybe 20 bucks. Recently I’ve wagered on World Cup soccer games, and I’ve admitted in previous columns to betting on political races...

The first time President Pinocchio promised that we’ll pay off the debt was when he ran in 2016.

Actually, he said he’d get it paid down in eight years, but voters put a kibosh on that timeline by voting him out after four.

You might say he wasn’t given the chance to see what he could do over an eight year stretch, but going by how the debt ballooned during his f...

I voted today.

If you asked me 10 years ago if I would be a registered Republican doing whatever I could for damage control, I would have told you no way, but here we ar...

Harry Chapin’s music still gives me a lift.

Which makes the boost I gave him mean even more to me. Chapin, a celebrated songwriter and singer, has been dead for 45 years, but he and his music haven’t been forgotten.

You know some of his most popular songs:

When the voter does everything right and an election worker does something wrong, the voter should win.

That is not the case in South Dakota.

The recent Mayoral run-off election in Sioux Falls is a perfect example of the problem. A few election...