Back in 2015, the new American Civil Liberties Union policy director for South Dakota, Libby Skarin, warned Senate State Affairs that legislation it was considering…
Author: Cory Allen Heidelberger
Possibly the single-most important quote to come out of the Senate State Affairs Committee’s hearing of Senate Bill 200, Neal Tapio’s unconstitutional and unworkable ban…
When Dennis Daugaard ran for Governor in 2010, he presented a 20-page plan for economic recovery (you know, from the second Bush Recession that Barack Obama…
LEAD Brookings has invited me to come down and speak tomorrow, Thursday, to lead a session on “Investigative Research Training”… or What I Find with…
However the Republicans’ three initiative-wrecking amendments fare in House State Affairs this morning, a bunch of democracy defenders will hold a press conference in Sioux…
One candidate hoping to march straight from the Women’s March to Pierre is Sheryl Johnson, Democrat for District 11 House. Johnson posts her concern for…
I don’t interact much with law enforcement in Pierre, but when I do, I want a smart, tough prosecutor like Roxanne Hammond in charge: Hammond…
The Brown County Republican Party is complicit in the local anti-immigrant nativism that Senators Neal Tapio, Lance Russell, and Al Novstrup have been stoking in…
Thursday morning’s House Taxation hearing fields three tax bills of interest to eaters and drinkers. The Democratic caucus, rebuffed last week on its sensible call…
Kristi Noem, who has been campaigning for governor since just a few days after she won her fourth term in Congress, held what she branded…