Free Speech

An Oklahoma state senator has proposed that organizers of demonstrations in his state post a $50-thousand bond to pay for security and cleanup. Good idea?

There’s been a fair amount of comment on the radio waves and elsewhere this week about public input at City Council meetings.

House Speaker Mark Mickelson is leading a campaign to undermine education in the state of south Dakota.

Use the banned word and you have 5 minutes to finish your drink and leave. I worked in the bar scene long enough, and was floored when they banned smoking. It looks like smoking was just the beginning of bar restrictions.

I don’t know how it’s possible that our legislators keep trying to do things that are so clearly unconstitutional. The latest example is a proposal by Rep. Sue Peterson, R-Sioux Falls, to make it illegal to alter the South Dakota state seal in any way.