Last month I wrote that South Dakota’s Republican leaders are scapegoating pandemic unemployment assistance for the long-standing worker shortage that at least a decade of…
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Certain tribal leaders aren’t letting the inside baseball of competing ballot question committees and fiscal notes distract them from the big policy goal we all should…
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) doesn’t know jack about constitutional law, but at least he and his pal Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) know how to…
Dr. Bob Burns, the eminence grise of South Dakota political science, rises to the defense of our imperiled democracy and calls on all of us…
Speaker Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) is so mad at Representative Shawn Bordeaux for being an uppity Indian that he’s not satisfied with removing Bordeaux as chair…
Secretary of State Steve Barnett must have read Dakota Free Press over the weekend and remembered he had that fiscal note for the hospital lobby…
If I were running for Governor—and obviously, I’m not, because I haven’t filed any official campaign finance papers to organize my campaign committee—what would I…
South Dakota News Watch‘s report on the evaporation of used-car inventories and explosion of prices makes me glad I bought my new used car in April…
Will the Great Black Hawk Gypsum Sinkhole eat Interstate 90? Anything could happen, suggests Dr. Mohammadhossein Sadeghiamirshahadi of Montana Technical University: An abandoned gypsum mine…
Off message this week: Secretary of Labor Marcia Hultman, who tells South Dakota News Watch that pandemic unemployment benefits are not the primary cause of South…