After two weeks of work, and with two weeks left to introduce new bills in regular order, the Legislature has thrown 179 bills in the…
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You know what’s funny? Kristi Noem complaining about elected officials not returning her calls: Gov. Noem on Thursday revealed she hasn’t heard from prosecutors investigating…
For the biggest, meanest, most dangerous attack on initiative in South Dakota, turn to Representative Fred Deutsch’s House Bill 1054, which would price grassroots, volunteer…
Get ready for controversy: legal eagle and Senate President Pro-Tem Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is lawyering into the whitecaps of South Dakota’s nonmeandered waters issue! In…
As a small state with a healthcare oligopoly, South Dakota apparently found it relatively easy to push the first batches of coronavirus vaccines out the…
Speaking of environmental deregulation, journalist and outdoorsman Kevin Woster thinks Governor Kristi Noem’s executively ordered merger the Department of Agriculture with the Department of Environment…
As Governor Kristi Noem signs the death warrant for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, David Ganje notes that one of the DENR’s last…
The South Dakota Legislature is participating in what we hope is a winter reflourishing of democracy by expanding opportunities for citizen participation in the Legislature.…
Less than 24 hours on the job, and President Joe Biden has already done all sorts of good for South Dakota. Here’s what South Dakota…
The departing Donald Trump reaches out to pardon Maria Butina’s old boyfriend, South Dakota man of international intrigue Paul Erickson: Paul Erickson – President Trump…