Senator Billie Sutton is making the financial collapse of Hetland-based H&I Grain an issue in his campaign for governor: Recently, South Dakota’s Public Utilities Commission…
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State Senator Deb Peters (R-9/Hartford) skipped chairing the July 24–25 meeting of the Government Operations and Audit Committee to go fry fiscal fish in Washington.…
South Dakota KIDS COUNT fills its Twitter stream with interesting data. Today’s chart shows that we’re doing a relatively poor job of persuading teenagers not…
That’s unexpected: Attorney General Marty Jackley issued another ballot question explanation yesterday, this time for a revised version of the Voter Initiative Protection (VIP) Amendment.…
A recent Leonard Pitts Jr. column asked “What Is Wrong with Trump?” In a letter to the editor in this morning’s Aberdeen American News, my neighbor…
How much did the South Dakota Highway Patrol spend in supporting state/corporate oppression of free speech at the Dakota Access pipeline protests in North Dakota…
At his workforce development workshop in Sioux Falls yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard said, “Finding workforce is the key problem that’s faced by employers.” So often…
Nodding and smiling at Trump Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta’s call for cutting occupational licensure requirements, Governor Dennis Daugaard says South Dakota should get rid of…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson has received approval from the Secretary of State to start circulating his unconstitutional proposal to ban out-of-staters from contributing to ballot…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp raised my eyebrows with her claim last week that the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative scandal didn’t lose any federal GEAR UP grant…