The Board of Elections showed its usefulness last November in shooting down one of Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s worse ideas: replacing nominating petitions with…
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Why would South Dakota’s libertarians advocating for autocracy? Representative Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg), who ran the South Dakota Libertarian Party before he decided to brand himself…
Rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) is proposing Senate Joint Resolution 507 to have voters say this November whether they want to semi-replace property tax…
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…
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…