The Republican Legislature spent the penultimate day of the 2022 Session kicking sand in Governor Kristi Noem’s fiscal face. In a profound reversal, the recalcitrant…
Category: South Dakota
Yesterday I said it took three tries to kill state funding for Governor Kristi Noem’s Rapid City shooting range. I spoke too soon: gun advocates…
Speaker Spencer Gosch is really looking hard for an excuse not to impeach killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. Gosch tells SDPB that the Governor’s continued effort…
The $1.5 million in additional funding that Governor Kristi Noem alleges killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has finagled from the legislators in an “unprecedented” closed-door…
Governor Kristi Noem alleges that our legislators, while dilly-dallying on impeachment, are giving killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg special treatment in the appropriations process: At…
In the South Dakota Legislature, we Democrats measure success by how long it takes for our good ideas to be defeated. On Monday, Representative Jon…
Representative Randy Gross (R-8/Elkton) has evidently taken his redistricting out of District 8 and into contentious District 25 in stride. With his Elkton home in Moody…
Here’s a curious new channel for propaganda and dark money on Kristi Noem’s behalf. Rob Burgess is launching something—political action committee? 501(c)3 non-profit? blog?—that he…
The Brookings United Church of Christ will hold a peace vigil for Ukraine this Friday and every Friday until Russia ends its aggression on Ukraine:…
Our members of Congress and our Governor are really, really mad that the Department of Veterans Affairs proposal to “realign and modernize VA health care…