Part of Republican lawyer Brian Murphy’s campaign to unseat Senator Jim Mehlhaff in District 24 is promising to protect citizens’ right to initiative and referendum.…
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Lawyer and former state and federal prosecutor Brian Murphy is challenging Senator Jim Mehlhaff (R-24/Pierre) in the District 24 Senate Republican primary. While Mehlhaff prefers…
Bob Mercer cooks up the strange thesis that “shifting some of the property-tax burden off single-family residential dwellings” was part of an overarching effort by…
I mentioned last September that the proposed K-12 math standards currently under review in South Dakota are a second push by conservative activists to force…
The backers of an initiated constitutional measure to abolish property tax and impose a retail transaction tax are lying to the public about its fiscal…
The Game Fish and Parks Commission has killed the Nest Predator Bounty Program… at least in name. While the Nest Predator Bounty Program was only…
Aside from transferring millions of dollars from your grocery budget to the owners of the biggest houses in town, has the 2026 Legislature done anything…
Speaking of the primary, Jon Hansen and Dusty Johnson both say they’ve submitted their nominating petitions with far more than the 2,171 signatures needed to…
Bob Mercer writes up how Governor Larry Rhoden and Speaker Jon Hansen, rivals for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, made nicey-nice to pass property tax relief…
After the exciting little Karr/Rhoden dust-up last November over agricultural pollution, nobody dared to offer any new environmental regulations on farms and ranches this Session.…