Ignore public opinion, get a referendum! The Sioux Falls City Council voted 7–0 Tuesday to rezone about a quarter section of land from agricultural to…
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Governor Larry Rhoden pitched a fit several weeks ago when Senate President Pro Tempore Chris Karr (R-11/Sioux Falls) said South Dakota may need to get…
Not satisfied to wait for the Frye-Muellers’ constitutional amendment to ban property taxes and bankrupt public schools and local governments, rookie Senator John Carley (R-29/Piedmont)…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s first executive order of 2026 declares an emergency due to the December 17 windstorm that, among other chaos, knocked out power around…
New York-based non-profit Mayday Health is suing Attorney General Marty Jackley in federal court over the state’s effort to block their promotion of abortion rights…
Former Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck says the Governor and Legislature wouldn’t have to play word games to break the school-funding law if they would just…
South Dakota Searchlight gets Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen to remind us how the Governor and Legislature get by with breaking the Janklow-era law that requires…
Rookie Republican Senator Curt Voight (R-33/Rapid City) forgets which party he belongs to and which state he lives in and proposes increased government regulation of…
Evidently hoping to convince us that Republicans really don’t coddle and pardon pedophiles, rookie Rep. Travis Ismay (R-28B/Vale) follows up his inconsistent recall bill for…
Along with its unnecessary digression into a redefinition of petition circulator that would land South Dakota in court again, Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s Senate Bill 33…