Sioux Falls/Las Vegas loan shark Chuck Brennan stayed mostly quiet during fight between rate-capping reformers and payday lenders on this year’s South Dakota ballot. The…
Category: South Dakota
Journalist and political reform activist Hedrick Smith boosted South Dakota’s Initiated Measure 22 earlier this year. He returns with a blog post celebrating Rick Weiland and Drey Samuelson’s…
The South Dakota Board of Elections mustered a meager quorum today (five of seven members on the conference call at the start, but only four of seven members…
But hey, it’s a good thing Governor Daugaard thinks we can save tens of millions by reforming Medicaid. We can put some of the savings toward paying the costs…
Governor Mike Pence expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in Indiana. But now as Donald Trump’s Vice-President-Elect, Pence has convinced our Governor Dennis Daugaard to drop…
Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) apparently thinks the public is tuned in enough to the details of managing the Senate that he used his own campaign funds to send a…
As expected, Kristi Noem is racing to file her campaign paperwork so she can transfer her Congressional campaign fund to her South Dakota gubernatorial campaign…
Returning Republican District 9 Senator Deb Peters wins recognition as one of Governing‘s eight Public Officials of the Year… mostly for supporting more taxes: In South Dakota,…
If I took Ken Santema’s advice, I wouldn’t comment on Bill Fuhrman’s response to the Aberdeen American News‘s question to its Reader Panel on whether…