Congressman Dusty Johnson immediately criticized Donald Trump’s still vague but definitely dumb plan to import hamburger and sell it under communist price controls. Now Senator…
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The billionaire vandalizing America says folks who oppose data centers are Chinese dupes who want their communities to be backwards and poor. Frank Kloucek, the…
Both of this year’s big property-tax-relief bills—Senate Bill 96 allowing counties to adopt a sales tax to lower property tax levies and Senate Bill 245…
Elena Tittel’s story on the Spring Valley Hutterite Colony’s economic activities includes some notable discrepancies between how much our turkey industry claims to be making…
Among the three draft issue memoranda the Legislative Research Council presented to the Legislative Executive Board Wednesday is a research brief on “Artificial Intelligence in…
Incumbents and legislative aspirants looking to write good laws on data centers will want to read all 17 pages (and well-footnoted sources!) of the Legislative…
The Legislative Research Council is guessing that legislators will get close to a $640 raise for the 2027 Session, up 4% from the current $15,790:…
One area in which the South Dakota Investment Council continues to excel lies in keeping overhead low. According to the SDIC’s report to the Legislative…
I generally speak highly of the South Dakota Investment Council and its longtime chief stock-picker Matt Clark. I’d be inclined to speak well again of…
*Updated 2026.09.02 to reflect the addition of Adam Bair, Democratic candidate for District 10 House, to the list of signatories. Marty Jackley takes Meta’s money…