My reporter friends at the Aberdeen American News labor under strict prohibitions on political activity, like not being able to sign petitions. Yet their statewide political reporter (whom…
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Senator Mike Rounds may be afraid to lobby to save South Dakota’s access to the EB-5 visa investment program that went corrupt on his watch, but the State of South Dakota is fighting…
Jeb Bush must think he’s going to last until South Dakota’s June primary. He appears to be angling for Dennis Daugaard’s endorsement: “Universities ought to have skin…
In a fit of sanity yesterday, the Legislature’s interim committee on the South Dakota High School Activities Association declared itself pointless and refused to recommend either of the…
Joop Bollen and EB-5, Scott Westerhuis and GEAR UP, Jason Gant and iOASIS and the filched flag—even the sober and serious Bob Mercer is compelled…
Last spring, in the midst of the bird flu outbreak that devastated South Dakota turkey and egg factories, South Dakota’s GOP spin blog briefly stepped out from behind…
Georgia’s legislature passed a law in 2014 allowing schools to arm their staff, like South Dakota’s 2013 school gunslinger law. Guess what happened? Just like in South Dakota,…
Attorney General Marty Jackley may give us some answers next week about the September 17 deaths of the Scott and Nicole Westerhuis family in Platte:…
Finding $75 million to increase pay is $32 million more difficult, according to information presented to the state Council of Economic Advisers yesterday: Jim Terwilliger told members…
$48,000. 39th. $75 million. Those are the parameters—not the plan, just the parameters—that the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students issued from their final…