The South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship offers $6,500 (raised from $5,000 by 2015 HB 1147) over four years to reasonably intelligent South Dakota students who pursue post-secondary…
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My friend The Displaced Plainsman doesn’t predict his own return to regular blogging (alas!), but he does offer some pessimistic predictions about the 2017 Legislative Session, including continued…
I suppose I should take heart that eight out of nine of my fellow South Dakotans haven’t been scared into thinking they need to carry a pistol. But after…
Jerry Apa is not happy with the state’s proposal to turn Spearfish Canyon into a state park. Seconding a complaint posted by Spearfish Canyon Owners Association member Jim Nelson in November,…
Ah, memories! Here are my past Top Ten Wish Lists: 2016 2011 2015 2010 2014 2009 2013: no list! Distracted by trip to France! 2008…
We can break down the top stories of 2016 many different ways. I like to crowdsource the analysis. First, let’s look at viewership stats. Out of…
Sixteen minutes after midnight, sore loser Chuck Brennan posted this happy New Year’s message on his Badlands Pawn website: Badlands Pawn, Gold & Jewelry was not your typical pawnshop……
In 2010, the South Dakota Legislature voted to create a prescription drug monitoring program, basically a central database in which doctors and pharmacists can enter the…
Flaccid tax receipts have not deterred members of the Legislature from seeking to spend more money. Among the measures arising from the Interim study of nursing home and assisted living…
The Legislative Research Council didn’t beat Christmas, but they did manage to post the first fifteen bills of the 2017 Session before New Year’s! The first bill in the…