In case you haven’t figured out that tariffs are really bad economic policy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York substantiates what we’ve known since…
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Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) has teamed up with some other level-headed legislators—three House Democrats and Senator Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings)—to propose House Bill 1278, a…
Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources could have saved the state $500,000 and the moral stain of turning kids into cold-blooded critter killers by defunding the…
Senator Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) apparently isn’t very good at writing legislation. Upset that an Aberdeen man killed himself last spring and that a woman watched…
With the Legislature still struggling to coalesce around any plan to lower property taxes, rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) proposes punting the issue to…
Yesterday was a noteworthy day in initiative trivia (initiatrivia?) in that it was not noteworthy. Speaker Jon Hansen and his fellow South Dakota Republicans, who…
Getting rid of immigrants isn’t just a betrayal of America’s fundamental moral principles. Getting rid of immigrants is also self-destructive fiscal policy. The conservative Cato…
Some members of the Senate aren’t waiting for the Supreme Court to clarify whether the Lieutenant Governor can break ties on votes on final passage…
If Republicans reject the latest Democratic proposal to eliminate South Dakota’s unusual sales tax on food, maybe they’ll at least support a tax break for…
Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources has a chance to approve eliminating one of Kristi Noem’s sillier wastes of money today. The committee will hear Senate…