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…
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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…
House Republicans join their Senate counterparts in hanging the “No Wingnuts Allowed” on their leadership door. House majority leadership. Whereas radical right-wingers occupied at least…
You’ve probably seen the various maps, like the one produced by the New York Times, showing voters swinging toward Democrats in nearly every county across…
Another midterm reform trend to which South Dakotans were impervious was voters’ overwhelming election of Democrats to run their state elections. Consider Georgia, which, just…
Two former legislators—one Republican, one Democratic—who now lobby for South Dakota’s health care sector say the Legislature should get the message from the failure of…
Clearly heeding retail lobbyist Nathan Sanderson’s call for boring government, Senate Republicans have joined their 2026 primary electorate in pushing mugwumps out of power. While…