Republiucan establishment figure Nathan Sanderson, currently chief of the South Dakota Retailers Association, expresses his hope for a return to boring state government: And so,…
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For all the noise Republicans make about maintaining the historical and well-documented integrity of our elections, their picks for Secretary of State suggest they aren’t…
I grit my teeth at the prospect of Donald Trump sullying Mount Rushmore with his presence again and begging to have his face carved into…
South Dakota’s body politic has endorsed Governor Larry Rhoden’s statewide property-tax/sales-tax swap with its silence. South Dakotans for Fair Taxes, a coalition of Dakota Rural…
Election/democracy denier and Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson finally caught someone committing election fraud: Republican Senator Tom Pischke. According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed…
Hey, Republican fence-sitters! If you’re still trying to think of a reason to vote for Larry Rhoden in your party’s gubernatorial runoff, how about the…
Hey, you three Sioux Falls Democrats who forgot to vote—this one’s on you! In Tuesday’s runoff election for Sioux Falls mayor, Republican Christine Erickson got…
I’ve cited one November 2025 study showing no net job growth from data centers in Texas. Planning and power expert Catherine Curtis finds that data…
Nonprofit watchdog Campaign for Accountability finds that three South Dakota “crisis pregnancy centers”—Zoecare in Wagner, Haven Center in Watertown, and Bella in Spearfish—are among 100…
Try as South Dakota and other theocracies might, they just can’t stop women from exercising their reproductive rights. The number of abortions in the United…