Speaking of farm welfare, the Farm Service Agency has already handed out over 80% of the tariff reparations Trump promised the commodity crop farmers he…
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America was made a little more secure last week by Kristi Noem’s early departure from the Department of Homeland Security. But her family’s federally subsidized…
It’s hard to tell what Donald Trump thinks about the farm economy. On Friday, he told an audience of supplicant farmers at the White House…
Senator Arch Beal (R-12/Sioux Falls) was too sick to attend a single day of Session this year, but he apparently feels well enough to run…
Speaking of ridiculous Executive priorities, as he sends American troops to pointless deaths on Iranian soil, Donald Trump has ordered television networks not to broadcast…
Back in January, House Commerce and Energy rejected Representative John Sjaarda’s (R-2/Valley Springs) continued effort to force businesses to accept cash. On opposing testimony from…
After four years of effort, Representative Kadyn Wittman’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) effort to pay for more school meals for kids is finally law. At Aberdeen’s Holgate…
Governor Larry Rhoden issued his second veto of the 2026 Session Wednesday, framing an effort to regulate non-medical home care as doing not enough and…
Brookings got a new locally owned newspaper, the Brookings Beacon, out of the out-of-state corporate divestment and reacquisition of the Brookings Register last summer. Now Connecticut-base…
The millions of consolation dollars that Republicans are throwing at South Dakota in the guise of the Rural Health Transformation Program won’t make up for…