Senator John Thune went quiet on Twitter over Easter. But post-holiday, he hasn’t resurrected his social media updates, save a retweet of his April 14…
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The Legislature’s Executive Board spent some time yesterday talking about the greatest threat to their club, initiative and referendum. A Legislative Research Council brief on initiatives…
Speaker of the House G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) is a funny guy. The Legislature’s 2017 Interim Study Survey included a comment section where Speaker Mickelson submitted this…
Hey, Kristi! You know all those fears you like to fan about fraud in food stamps? Well, the feds have found fourteen million dollars’ worth of food…
The Borg write a letter to the editor in my morning paper, declaring that “Immigrants Must Assimilate.” Actually, the writer is Aberdeen retiree Gary Famias,…
We know how this plays out: a Muslim South Dakotan exercises Second Amendment rights to the extreme peddled by the right wing… A man who…
The Legislature’s Executive Board meets Tuesday in Pierre to pick its interim study topics. LRC hasn’t done us the favor of posting the topics the committee will…
Dakota War College reads FEC reports and gives favorable coverage to Dusty Johnson, who buys ads on DWC, and critical coverage to Shantel Krebs, who has…
In another reminder of how much harder Vermont has tackled EB-5 corruption than South Dakota, Vermont Governor Phil Scott held a press conference Thursday to announce that…
Journalist Tom Lawrence gets the same sense of fear and intended intimidation from Thune and Noem’s town halls at police stations that the SDSU Collegian and I do. Lawrence…