After four years of effort, Representative Kadyn Wittman’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) effort to pay for more school meals for kids is finally law. At Aberdeen’s Holgate…
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Governor Larry Rhoden issued his second veto of the 2026 Session Wednesday, framing an effort to regulate non-medical home care as doing not enough and…
Brookings got a new locally owned newspaper, the Brookings Beacon, out of the out-of-state corporate divestment and reacquisition of the Brookings Register last summer. Now Connecticut-base…
The millions of consolation dollars that Republicans are throwing at South Dakota in the guise of the Rural Health Transformation Program won’t make up for…
Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of the old good Internet, where humans work together to produce useful knowledge, not the social media hellhole…
The worst-ever Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said last spring that pregnant women shouldn’t get covid shots. That was too…
Radical right-wing Freedom Caucus member and Representative Tina Mulally (R-35/Rapid City) made a farewell speech on the House floor on Tuesday, March 10. (Rep. Mulally’s…
(Stalwarts… isn’t that what you get from sitting on the toilet too long reading posts on Truth Social?) Aberdeen’s economic development crowd is making a…
Yesterday Governor Larry Rhoden signed the two sensible regulations on data centers that the 2026 Legislature approved. The more sweeping bill, Senate Bill 135, requires…
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…