When the Legislature struggled its way toward giving regular folks a sales tax break in 2023, they could only muster the courage to make the…
Month: December 2025
Representative Bill Shorma (R-17/Dakota Dunes) is trying again to tinker with South Dakota’s calling-and-driving law. House Bill 1010 would remove “Reading, selecting, or entering a…
In the White People Problems file, Representative Bill Shorma (R-17/Dakota Dunes) wants to put golf carts on more public roads. In 2013, the Legislature passed…
Speaking of government expenditures and demon rum… You know what else outweighs the $189.4 million federal Rural Health Transformation grant Governor Larry Rhoden announced yesterday?…
The next time some South Dakota politician bloviates about South Dakota values, ask him/her why our vaunted values of faith, family, and freedom don’t keep…
Governor Larry Rhoden yesterday announced that the federal Department of Hellth is giving South Dakota $189.4 million to subsidize rural health care. The money comes…
Remember, part of the reason our Project 2025 White House is killing the Department of Education is that, under previous administrations, the Department of Education…
In an article emphasizing that housing is the primary hurdle to small-town economic development, Bart Pfankuch also notes that putting the screws to owners of…
Rural Students Real Opportunity, the group working to dissolve the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school district, is calling for a recount of the close December 16 vote that…
Remember how back in September I noted that South Dakota’s Republican legislators tend to put constitutional amendments on the ballot that restrict rights? Well, here…