Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) blesses reporters and the public with some blunt, bruising, and occasionally insightful, refreshingly party-transcendent, and once in a blue…
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Governor Kristi Noem’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposes adding just 5.7 new full-time equivalents to the 14,052.9 FTEs allocated to this year’s state payroll. To…
Senate King Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) is using this afternoon’s Saints-Vikings game to build his bench in the Senate: Schoenbeck and the SDGOP mainstream machine—represented…
Senator Julie Frye-Mueller (R-30/Rapid City) got suspended and censured for making unprofessional comments about sex and lactation to a Legislative Research Council employee. Can Senate…
Even a 10% raise to $170,665 a year can’t keep some people in Pierre. Legislative Research Council director Reed Holwegner resigned yesterday at a surprise…
On July 26, Attorney General Marty Jackley gave Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) until yesterday, August 7, to repay the $603,219.79 that she illegally received…
Stu Whitney writes a remarkable article on the staff turnover and turmoil that are part and parcel of Kristi Noem’s gubernatoriate, the most image-conscious, attention-hungry,…
If we can’t get the Legislature to change the game to protect landowners from the corporate carbon dioxide pipeliners who are stealing their property, perhaps the…
The Republican leaders of the Senate and House are split on whether the Iowa Republicans running Summit Carbon Solutions ought to be able to seize…
Joshua Haiar writes a good article on the strange political bedfellows resisting carbon dioxide pipelines in South Dakota and the single principle uniting them: corporations…