Governor Larry Rhoden has admitted that his wimpy buck-passing proposal, Senate Bill 96, to let counties impose a half-penny sales tax to lower property taxes…
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House Bill 1082, Representative Kadyn Wittman’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) hard-fought campaign to make school meals free for kids who already qualify for the reduced price, still…
Senator Liz Larson (D-10/Sioux Falls) leads the Democratic minority in the South Dakota Senate. Last week, Senate Bill 213 — a proposal to expand out-of-school…
Speaking of Republican-on-Republican rhetorical violence and the Noem family’s general scuzziness, the Republican crony-consultants at A1 Development Solutions are suing Kristi Noem’s son-in-law for cheating…
Remember when Kristi Noem wrote about killing her dog Cricket for ruining a hunt to, in Kevin Woster’s words, “promote[…] herself as a country tough…
The Senate’s defeat of House Joint Resolution 5001 yesterday whittled down the possible ballot measures the 2026 Legislature will put on the general election ballot…
In 2024, opponents of carbon-capture pipelines referred a law favoring pipeline companies over property owners to a public vote and rode public outrage against the…
The Legislature has significantly scaled back Senate Bill 3, Senator Michael Rohl’s (R-1/Aberdeen) proposal to prohibit local governments from requiring permits for various home renovations.…
House State Affairs may have taken the prohibition on selling abortion-related products out of House Bill 1257, but the anti-abortion fanatics are pushing a ban…
Now that the Trump Court has allowed South Dakota to ban pretty much all abortions, the abortion lobby has had a pretty dull 2026 Legislative…