Representative Peri Pourier’s (R-27/Pine Ridge) announcement of her switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party was strangely unspecific to the state of politics…
Category: South Dakota
Heather Cox Richardson: Hegseth Wounded Knee Order Perpetuates Sordid Politicking of Medals of Honor
Heather Cox Richardson wrote a profound history of the partisan politics that led to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. The esteemed historian and political commentator…
Evidently eager for more beatings in court, the state yesterday filed its notice of appeal to the Eighth Circuit over its loss this summer over…
South Dakota’s election denialists are turning on Secretary of State Monae Johnson. After helping the underqualified Johnson oust incumbent and Republican favorite Steve Barnett at…
Marty Jackley is dropping legal bombs on smoke shops. Evidently the Attorney General dispatched secret shoppers to five peddlers of allegedly mild mind-alterants in June…
In his argument to the court, USD art professor Dr. Michael Hook, through his lawyer Jim Leach or Rapid City, makes this really important argument…
Back to work, Professor Hook! Judge Karen Schreier received USD art professor Michael Hook’s lawsuit on Tuesday and heard arguments yesterday at 2 p.m.; by…
USD art professor Michael Hook is taking the Board of Regents to court. Hook makes the politically radical but judicially unsurprising claim that the Regents…
Governor Larry Rhoden and Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen, who led the Governor’s prison refit study committee, scored a big policy and political victory yesterday as…
Rep. Jim Mehlhaff (R-24/Pierre) knows that the Muellers’ flat retail transaction tax won’t provide the property tax relief the Muellers promise. So he went to…