How do you know when something is hogwash? When Mel Olson says it is. SDPB talks to teachers and parents about the fake fuss fomented…
Category: South Dakota
The Legislative Research Council has tallied up all the federal dollars that have kept South Dakota afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and recession. At yesterday’s…
Representative Trish Ladner (R-30/Hot Springs) is trying to pick up the slack on Pat Powers’s ever-more ho-hum spin blog and provide some semblance of original…
A Facebook post on corporate baseball and advertising gives Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) a chance to show his racial insensitivity: A tax-cheat cop murders…
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…
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…