The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) says it needs to increase costs for livestock producers right now! House Bill 1020, requested by the DA(NR),…
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Chief Justice Steven R. Jensen wants to give certain offenders with revoked driver licenses a few more excuses to drive. Certain drug offenders with suspended…
When the Legislature struggled its way toward giving regular folks a sales tax break in 2023, they could only muster the courage to make the…
Representative Bill Shorma (R-17/Dakota Dunes) is trying again to tinker with South Dakota’s calling-and-driving law. House Bill 1010 would remove “Reading, selecting, or entering a…
In the White People Problems file, Representative Bill Shorma (R-17/Dakota Dunes) wants to put golf carts on more public roads. In 2013, the Legislature passed…
Speaking of government expenditures and demon rum… You know what else outweighs the $189.4 million federal Rural Health Transformation grant Governor Larry Rhoden announced yesterday?…
The next time some South Dakota politician bloviates about South Dakota values, ask him/her why our vaunted values of faith, family, and freedom don’t keep…
Governor Larry Rhoden yesterday announced that the federal Department of Hellth is giving South Dakota $189.4 million to subsidize rural health care. The money comes…
In an article emphasizing that housing is the primary hurdle to small-town economic development, Bart Pfankuch also notes that putting the screws to owners of…
Rural Students Real Opportunity, the group working to dissolve the Oldham-Ramona-Rutland school district, is calling for a recount of the close December 16 vote that…