The $1.5 million in additional funding that Governor Kristi Noem alleges killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has finagled from the legislators in an “unprecedented” closed-door…
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Governor Kristi Noem alleges that our legislators, while dilly-dallying on impeachment, are giving killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg special treatment in the appropriations process: At…
In the South Dakota Legislature, we Democrats measure success by how long it takes for our good ideas to be defeated. On Monday, Representative Jon…
Representative Randy Gross (R-8/Elkton) has evidently taken his redistricting out of District 8 and into contentious District 25 in stride. With his Elkton home in Moody…
Here’s a curious new channel for propaganda and dark money on Kristi Noem’s behalf. Rob Burgess is launching something—political action committee? 501(c)3 non-profit? blog?—that he…
The Brookings United Church of Christ will hold a peace vigil for Ukraine this Friday and every Friday until Russia ends its aggression on Ukraine:…
Our members of Congress and our Governor are really, really mad that the Department of Veterans Affairs proposal to “realign and modernize VA health care…
Can Taneeza Islam mount a serious challenge to Republican golden idol Paul TenHaken in the Sioux Falls mayoral election? their relative fundraising over the last…
South Dakota was able to fabricate a budget surplus with federal coronavirus stimulus checks and a surge in wind farm construction. South Dakota can’t do much…
Bob Mercer, who has reported on the Legislature for 38 years (and worked downstairs from the Legislature for four years under Governor Bill Janklow) calls…