Senator M. Michael Rounds wants the ag-industrial complex to determine whether or not the land they want to tile, plow, and monetize qualifies as wetlands,…
Month: October 2022
I like ranked-choice voting. Counting voters’ second and so on preferences past their first choices captures a more reliable picture of the popular will, weeds…
I enjoy the presence of Libertarians on the ballot, because (1) a robust multi-party system promotes more cross-partisan cooperation and consensus-building and (2) a serious,…
The South Dakota news-scape is bursting with new outlets. Former Argus reporters Joe Sneve and Jonathan Ellis have been cranking out The Dakota Scout since the beginning of…
Hughes County States Attorney Jessica LaMie has decided she can’t prosecute Governor Kristi Noem for alleged misuse of the state plane for personal or political…
The properly chagrined Jamie Smith campaign has swiftly corrected the gross error on his pre-general campaign finance report. 23 hours after filing a list of…
Mark Vargo made a mistake yesterday. The Attorney General read the initiatives proposed by Dakotans for Health to repeal South Dakota’s state sales tax on…
Kristi Noem’s campaign claims Jamie Smith has violated campaign finance law and “illegally deposited over half-a-million dollars in contributions.” Team Noem gets it half right.…
Americans for Prosperity propagandist Keith Moore (who knows a thing or two about living large on government handouts) contends on the 2022 Ballot Question Pamphlet…
Indian voting rights advocates have been fighting for years to get early-voting satellite stations to give our Lakota neighbors equal ballot access. Representative Shawn Bordeaux…