The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources this month approved seven $58K subsidies, carved out of the Volkswagen diesel-cheating settlement funds, to six…
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In its fire sale of America’s health and welfare, the Trump Administration last month approved the Powertech/Azarga in situ uranium mining plan in the Dewey–Burdock…
Last week Governor Kristi Noem told the South Dakota Legislature that we have $224 million in one-time money to spend during this fiscal year. That…
Speaking of the new redistricting initiative, the SDGOP spin machine is wasting no time in flinging feces at the movement, which would undermine (though far…
We may get another go at creating an independent redistricting commission in South Dakota. Leading a coalition of eighteen South Dakota groups, the League of…
In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
By the way, as I analyze the newly posted draft amendment petition on redistricting (whose drafters, contrary to the SDGOP spin blog’s hyperventilations, are not violating…
South Dakota and I are taking each other to federal court today. Judges Gruender, Erickson, and Kobes of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will…
Brookings remains one of the most sensible towns in South Dakota. Along with providing South Dakota with a model of rational pandemic response, Brookings continues…