I mentioned last September that the proposed K-12 math standards currently under review in South Dakota are a second push by conservative activists to force…
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The backers of an initiated constitutional measure to abolish property tax and impose a retail transaction tax are lying to the public about its fiscal…
The Game Fish and Parks Commission has killed the Nest Predator Bounty Program… at least in name. While the Nest Predator Bounty Program was only…
Aside from transferring millions of dollars from your grocery budget to the owners of the biggest houses in town, has the 2026 Legislature done anything…
Speaking of the primary, Jon Hansen and Dusty Johnson both say they’ve submitted their nominating petitions with far more than the 2,171 signatures needed to…
Bob Mercer writes up how Governor Larry Rhoden and Speaker Jon Hansen, rivals for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, made nicey-nice to pass property tax relief…
After the exciting little Karr/Rhoden dust-up last November over agricultural pollution, nobody dared to offer any new environmental regulations on farms and ranches this Session.…
Now for some statistical Legis-trivia: The 2026 Legislature passed 241 bills (just bills, not resolutions), 42.2% of the 571 bills filed. Only one has been…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s Senate Bill 96, the optional county sales tax to lower property taxes, got lots of attention this Session. The Governor signed that…
The Legislature smartly declined to throw money at data centers and instead approved some mild regulations concerning data centers’ electricity and water usage and a…