My local paper keys in on one dire phrase that our Congressional delegation used in its please-stop-the-beatings letter to Donald Trump, “the brink of economic collapse” facing…
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Give someone too much guff on Facebook, and you can be busted for stalking, but you can still demand that the judge be specific about…
Among the interesting details in Bob Mercer’s conversation with Game Fish & Parks wildlife administration chief Scott Simpson about South Dakota hunting data are a…
Speaking of taxes, my morning Governing newsletter says that supermajority requirements like South Dakota’s don’t really affect tax rates: A total of 14 states impose some kind of…
Billie Sutton remains wrong-headedly triangulative on income tax. Todd Epp asks the Democratic gubernatorial candidate what he thinks of a state income tax, and Sutton…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Billie Sutton continues to criticize his Republican opponent, Congresswoman Kristi Noem, as a political insider. Asked by Todd Epp how he responds…
The good news: Bob Mercer keeps his job! After the Trump economy drove Dakota Media Group to can South Dakota’s best Pierre-based reporter, Mercer found…
Boy, there’s gotta be a promo for South Dakota Tourism in here somewhere…. Maria Butina didn’t spend all of her time in South Dakota making…
Judge Deborah Robinson agreed with federal prosecutors that Maria Butina is an extreme flight risk and ordered the accused Russian agent held without bond in…
Lake Norden has no city cop today. The state Law Enforcement Officers Standards Commission voted unanimously yesterday to revoke Lake Norden Police Chief Jimmy Murphy’s…