Hey, did you hear all that talk about rehabilitation and recidivism during the 2026 Legislative Session? No, neither did I, and neither did Representative Brian…
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The South Dakota Democratic Party announced last week that it has fielded candidates in 83% of South Dakota’s Legislative districts. 83% of 35 districts is…
Prepare for civilian deaths at America’s airports. No, Iran isn’t sending shoe bombers to Joe Foss Field; Trump is sending his radicalized Immigration and Customs…
Last summer, right-wing Representative Scott Odenbach (R-31/Spearfish) proposed amending a South Dakota law that limits how much water we pull from aquifers. Surprisingly, Rep. Odenbach…
The disgust South Dakotans feel over rising property taxes has yet to surpass the disgust their legislators feel at the prospect of implementing a state…
Hughes County must not be short on cash. They can afford to give former Department of Corrections chief Kellie Wasko a contract to serve as…
South Dakota’s investment chief Matt Clark says the South Dakota Retirement System is running behind benchmarks by cautious design. A big part of that caution…
Part of Republican lawyer Brian Murphy’s campaign to unseat Senator Jim Mehlhaff in District 24 is promising to protect citizens’ right to initiative and referendum.…
Lawyer and former state and federal prosecutor Brian Murphy is challenging Senator Jim Mehlhaff (R-24/Pierre) in the District 24 Senate Republican primary. While Mehlhaff prefers…
Bob Mercer cooks up the strange thesis that “shifting some of the property-tax burden off single-family residential dwellings” was part of an overarching effort by…