Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) is mostly useless and occasionally harmful to good government. But every now and then, like when he leaked the transcript…
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Smithfield Foods says it has no position on the slaughterhouse ban that some well-to-do Sioux Falls residents have placed on the city’s November ballot in…
It’s kind of tough to represent rural interests in government if rural interests don’t show up to the meetings. The Lake County Commission held a…
I guess when Kristi tweets “#GoJacks”, she means “Go take a hike, Jacks!” Last week political science professor Dave Wiltse said his SDSU Poll shows…
Casey Murschel is a former Republican legislator. To clarify, she is a former legislator—three terms in the House from 2001 through 2006—and now a former…
On Friday, Governor Kristi Noem exhorted people to “Join me in continuing to support our robust tourism industry” and “welcome and encourage every visitor to…
The headline here comes directly from Kristi Noem in her latest weekly propaganda column, which for once rings profoundly if unintentionally true: Given that she…
The Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce endorsed Amendment D, the ballot initiative to expand Medicaid, in August. Now the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and…
On September 20, Christine Erickson, president of the South Dakota Trucking Association, and Lorin Pankratz, lobbyist for the South Dakota Pork Producers Council, organized “Sioux…
Women are marching all over America tomorrow, October 8. “Women’s Wave” marches are happening in South Dakota’s two biggest cities. Women and people who support…