South Dakota’s Republican Presidential delegates who are willing to express a preference rebuffed a pitch from a John Kasich campaigner at their March 19 caucus and uniformly…
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Following up on a 2015 Human Rights Watch report alleging massive corruption on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General…
Megan Raposa’s story this morning on the Sly Amendment to the new Senate Bill 131 K-12 funding formula gets one thing right: Raposa uses Senator Bille Sutton’s…
All right, now that I’ve Heimliched that Trump blockage, let’s look at what Sioux Falls house painter and hovercraft impresario Reginald Poppenga has to say about Amendment…
I am pleased to see Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary proposal, get national attention in the Wall Street Journal. But I almost can’t get past this line: “It…
Jay Williams tells the press he has gathered just about twice the 706 signatures he needs to get on the ballot as the Democratic candidate…
We’ve been having a pleasant conversation with Republican District 19 Senate candidate Stace Nelson from Fulton about putting Cabinet secretaries up for election and consolidating some…
In another unfortunate ding on public trust, a former auditor in the South Dakota Department of Revenue has been indicted for fraud. Steven Arthur Knigge…
Bob Mercer’s “Week Ahead in State Government” column is a useful heads-up on upcoming meetings and deadlines. However, he makes one important error in this week’s edition:…
The South Dakota Education Association tucks a good-sized Easter egg into my Sunday paper: Again, “bold” in South Dakota means increasing a regressive sales tax, spending a…