O.K., we’ve had our parliamentary fun; now on the policy itself: The Senate yesterday took up Senate Bill 195, Senator Chris Karr’s (R-11/Sioux Falls) latest…
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I hate to lead a policy story with what can be read as a personal tussle, but when that personal tussle is expressed in disagreement…
While the Legislature struggles to agree on any plan for comprehensive tax reform, anti-hunger advocate Cathy Brechtelsbauer of Sioux Falls notes that the state already…
Corporate welfare is bad enough, but now the state of South Dakota is forking out cash to China. Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods has a problem: CEO…
The Board of Elections showed its usefulness last November in shooting down one of Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s worse ideas: replacing nominating petitions with…
Why would South Dakota’s libertarians advocating for autocracy? Representative Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg), who ran the South Dakota Libertarian Party before he decided to brand himself…
Rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) is proposing Senate Joint Resolution 507 to have voters say this November whether they want to semi-replace property tax…
In case you haven’t figured out that tariffs are really bad economic policy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York substantiates what we’ve known since…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) has teamed up with some other level-headed legislators—three House Democrats and Senator Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings)—to propose House Bill 1278, a…
Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources could have saved the state $500,000 and the moral stain of turning kids into cold-blooded critter killers by defunding the…