South Dakota News Watch notes the failure of South Dakota’s plan to raise teacher pay that we’ve been talking about throughout this year. We busted our…
Author: Cory Allen Heidelberger
South Dakota is the third-most energy-efficient state in the Lower 48.…if you only count Trump states. Governing points to a WalletHub report that figures state energy efficiency…
A couple months ago, our French friends were protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s health pass—the pass sanitaire—requiring proof of coronavirus vaccination, recovery, or negative test to access…
A couple of Twitter friends point out one radical bit of gerrymandering in the House-favored “Grouse” redistricting map proposed by Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen): Vermillion…
Why, yes, Scott Ehrisman, Iowa businessman and SDGOP chairman Dan Lederman is pushing for a carbon pipeline across South Dakota. A couple weeks ago, South DaCola noted…
Bloomberg sends Anders Melin to downtown Sioux Falls to look into South Dakota’s facilitation of global corruption. Melin gets the usual a-few-bad-apples downplaying of the…
Sally Jo Sorensen of Bluestem Prairie finds that Congressman Dusty Johnson had a little sleazy money in his campaign kitty last year: Given former Republican Party…
On June 29, Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack (R-29/Union Center) pled a 2020 DUI charge down to careless driving and got a fine and six…
Senate President Pro-Tempore Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) made public the names of the 27 Senators who signed the letter calling for the November 9 Special Session…
Dakotans for Health isn’t just fighting to expand Medicaid in South Dakota; they’re fighting for more democracy for everybody in our fair state. Recognizing the…