South Dakota Citizens for Liberty has posted its 2019 Conservative Scorecard for the South Dakota Legislature. Scores this year are based on 22 bills and…
Month: July 2019
Picking a side in the fight between rural electric cooperatives and municipal electric providers over city government’s ability to annex territory and take equipment and…
The Bureau of Finance and Management and the Legislative Research Council issued mixed fiscal projections today. To be clear, both agencies agree we’re going to…
Lisa Kaczke notices a remarkable Morning Consult poll—remarkable in that it shows someone actually bothers to poll South Dakota voters about their elected leaders. Morning…
After 44 years of public service, Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Steve Pirner is retiring: Earlier Friday, Pirner submitted his resignation letter to…
Joint Appropriations gets together today in Pierre in Capitol Room 362 to discuss our faltering revenues. After lunch, they’ll discuss the appropriational ins and outs…
The most fun you’ll have in Pierre this week is Thursday’s meeting of the “Electric Services in an Annexed Area” Interim Committee. The Legislature empaneled…
The good folks of Custer celebrated the Euro-invasion of the Black Hills with the Gold Discovery Days Parada yesterday. Roving correspondent Toby Uecker provides these…
Any political speech that begins with “I am a jerk” clearly deserves a full hearing. Bob Newland spoke to the South Dakota Libertarian Party convention…
Well, that didn’t take long. Two months after firing up its expanded cheese plant in Lake Norden, Agropur is already pouring more pollution into the…