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By Ed Randazzo I don’t think that Mayor Hanks is getting very good political advice. In a Rapid City Journal article on 3/6/2011, Mayor Alan Hanks of Rapid City is quoted as saying “I find it unusual that Alderman Kooiker has…
By Ed Randazzo The SD Senate State Affairs Committee took a step into the darkness on Wednesday. Devoid of intestinal fortitude they decided to ignore their charge as representatives of the people of South Dakota and toss the hot potato…
By Ed Randazzo Planned Parenthood is apparently threatened by a bill in the SD Legislature. HB1217 would require a doctor scheduling an abortion (pronounced infanticide) to actually meet with the woman having the procedure at least 72 hours prior. It…
By Ed Randazzo Current Ward 2 Alderman Sam Kooiker announced that he is running for Mayor of Rapid City. His honesty, integrity and solid conservative values will serve Rapid City well as mayor. I personally am elated that Sam has…
By Ed Randazzo Take a few minutes and watch this YouTube video by Tom Woods as he takes on the Associated Press and the Governor of Montana. www.youtube.com/embed/jke1gPY1HQI” Editor’s Note: Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the New York Times bestselling…
From Rasmussen Reports 2/28/2011 As Republicans and Democrats in Congress haggle over the budget, most voters would rather have a partial shutdown of the federal government than keep its spending at current levels. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey…
By Ed Randazzo Did you happen to read the excerpts from a live chat published by the Rapid City Journal on Friday, 2/25/2011? I did. Senator Adelstein, who never met a tax he didn’t like, is promoting his “soak the…
By MARIN COGAN ORLANDO, Fla.—The two town halls couldn’t have been any more different — one a blue-jeans-and-ball-cap affair, rowdy and filled-to-capacity near an impoverished urban strip — the other a smaller confab of polo-shirt-and-Bermuda-shorts clad seniors in a sleek…
By Dale Bartscher, Executive Director The Family Heritage Alliance SB 161 – Discrimination Bill FAILED on the Senate Floor on 2/23/2011 with a vote of 25 to 9 and it is GONE 
This bill was endorsed and promoted by Equality South Dakota…
By Ed Randazzo The following is the text of the statement issued by Senator John Thune and Kimberley Thune on Tuesday, 2/22/2011. For months now, my wife Kimberley and I have received encouragement from family, friends, colleagues, and supporters from…