South Dakota’s abysmal voter turnout in the 2026 general election may have been part of a nationwide phenomenon of rural voters choosing not to participate:…
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The failure of Amendment L suggests it’s not worth the trouble for legislators to whip up another 60% threshold or other chicanery to make amending…
Governor Rhoden may have gotten six county commissions to adopt his sales-tax-for-property-tax swap, but in two counties that have put the 2026 SB 96 optional…
On Monday, Governor Larry Rhoden cheered himself and the six counties who have taken him up on his 2026 Senate Bill 96, enacted now in…
Voters’ rejection of Amendment L at the polls last week was the third time in eight years that Republican legislators’ attempts to require than a…
One of the hardest things to dissolve in South Dakota is apparently the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school district. On Tuesday, district residents rejected a second petition to…
Democrats contested only 12 of South Dakota’s 35 Senate seats this year. 21 Republican candidates faced no challenger, and two faced (and beat) one independent…
Back in August I reviewed the Legislative Research Council’s draft issue memorandum on hyperscale data centers and deemed it a well-documented and objective policy primer…
In an apparent attempt to avoid the locally toxic Democratic brand, Democrats in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana largely rallied behind independent candidates for U.S.…
In visualizing South Dakota’s weak shift toward Democrats in the midterm election, NBC News did not map the U.S. Senate race, since we had no…