For a lawmaker, Rep. Tim Goodwin (R-30/Rapid City) seems distressingly incapable of understanding state law. Alas, so does Secretary of State Shantel Krebs. According to…
Month: July 2018
Former Yankton mayor and now Democratic candidate for District 18 House Terry Crandall keeps racking up good marks on his résumé. Last night his colleagues…
Why should you ring the Blog Tip Jar and support Dakota Free Press? Because, as Republican Senator John Thune tells WNAX, the free press is vital…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce used to holler bloody murder about all the uncertainty über-rational President Barack Obama supposedly introduced into the marketplace. Their far…
Last year Governor Dennis Daugaard said he wanted a statewide review of tax increment financing. Last week, the Department of Revenue delivered a useful document…
The ag-industrial lobbyists at the Farm Bureau are calling on their members to call Congress and get the Trump tariffs off their backs: Bureau President…
Democratic candidate for Attorney General Randy Seiler isn’t afraid to show his support of South Dakota’s LGBT community. He posts this photo of himself at…
I’ve expressed surprise that Senator John Thune didn’t live-Tweet his Russia trip last week. But as Russian state television anchorman Sergei Brilev (pronounced /bril-YOV/) explains, I…
The awful graph of the week comes from the Department of Revenue’s otherwise rock’em-sock’em first-of-its-kind statewide Tax Increment Financing Report. Check out this poorly proportioned…
I haven’t made a big deal about Russian meddling in our 2016 election. But Senator John Thune is: he flew all the way to Russia…