Madison has a Walmart downtown! Or so appears to be the Christmas wish of the Farmers Insurance folks, who decorated their Egan Avenue storefront with…
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…and Sports Betting a Progressive Tax? The Legislative Research Council doesn’t think sports betting in Deadwood will be a big moneymaker. In a fiscal note…
Earlier this month, the Legislative Research Council issued its fiscal note on the “meta-initiative“—the initiative to reform the initiative process—that I’ve proposed. Where the Attorney…
The Trump Administration isn’t counting how many people die in its custody, but the Legislative Research Council can tell you how many folks were living…
While Kristi Noem was adding to the donors and political pals who will run our state for her, she was not voting to avert the…
Kristi Noem just appointed Cooter Secretary of Education! Yeeha! Oh, possum on a gumbush—wrong Ben Jones. Dr. Benjamin F. Jones will take six months off…
Governor-Elect Kristi Noem has picked FCC Services honcho former Republican legislator Kim Vanneman to be her Secretary of Industrial Agriculture. Vanneman has donated regularly to…
The Koch Brothers and the ACLU are cheering the Senate for passing a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, the First Step Act, focusing on offering…
The Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce reiterates its support for offering driver exams in languages other than English with two key points. First, Debra Owens of…
I don’t know how I missed the fact that Annette Bosworth’s former spinster turned quasi-fink Joel Arends won a seat on the Lincoln County Commission last…