The Department of Agriculture announced this week that attendance at the South Dakota State Fair this year was down 47.4% compared to 2019. Well, the…
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A couple years ago, we raised legislator pay 90%, in the hope that better pay would lead to better legislating. That hasn’t happened yet, but…
Among the details of Kristi Noem’s deliberately PDF’d, small-fonted, non-machine-searchable October 19 campaign finance report is this unusual line, offered in several places in lieu…
Absentee Governor Kristi Noem’s vagabond hawkery for fascist stupidity has made quite an impression on outside observer Mike McFeely. In a Tuesday column in the…
Evidently to be a true Trumpist, Governor Kristi Noem also has to practice breaking the law. She defied New Hampshire’s travel restrictions on us cootified…
Speaker of the House Steven Haugaard has had coronavirus for two weeks. He says he’s had a fever the whole time and has lost sixteen…
Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) is seeking reëlection so he can go back to Pierre and push more angry-dad legislation to get back at his…
The early coronavirus supply-chain disruption hasn’t stopped the dairy industry from increasing production this year. USDA reports that South Dakota squeezed 12% more milk from…
Former Aberdeen cop and school resource officer Jeff Carlson has at least a few days off from his retirement gig as a guard at the…
Absentee Governor Kristi Noem justifies her spending the pandemic criss-crossing the country as an effort to protect South Dakota’s interests by keeping Donald Trump in…