Brown County Democrats are hosting an outdoor, coronavirus-careful campaign event Thursday after work for U.S. Senate candidate Dan Ahlers and Democratic candidates for Legislature and…
Category: South Dakota
Governor Kristi Noem has discouraged the use of face masks to check the spread of coronavirus and questioned whether it’s practical to require children to…
Yesterday South Dakota reported 320 new cases of coronavirus, six deaths, and 109 hospitalizations. That 109 is the highest number of people we’ve had in…
Among the topics legislators heard at a public forum on coronavirus relief in Rapid City Thursday was state support for local meat lockers. Right now,…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. $13,494, the maximum allowed by law, for failing to protect employees at its…
Increased sales tax revenues aren’t dissuading legislators from supporting Governor Kristi Noem’s plan to direct the biggest chunk yet of South Dakota’s federal coronavirus relief…
It’s not every day that a five-million-dollar increase in sales tax revenues amidst a pandemic recession is only the second biggest budget story of the…
Senator John Thune must think Joe Biden is going to be President next year. After four years of ignoring the unabashed deficit spending of his…
All those Trumpists in Brookings crying about their city government’s leadership in passing the first citywide mask mandate in South Dakota had better think again.…
Governor Kristi Noem is finally promising to shake loose a much larger chunk of the coronavirus relief funds that she has mostly sat on all…