Even if Senate Bill 69 takes effect, legislative candidates won’t have to start their petitioning until December 1. But we already have three candidates, each…
Category: South Dakota
Bob Mercer reports that the South Dakota Lottery is bringing in $5.5 million more this year than last. The lottery must be getting some good…
If we Democrats and über-conservative Republicans could get along, we could tag-team Governor Daugaard into a tizzy. At the same time that he was penning a specious,…
Minnesota fur farmer Terri Petter won a state license to display her wolf pups in Deadwood last month, but she may need a new place to…
Erin Ageton, vice-president of operations for predatory short-term title lender Select Management Resources, filed suit on June 5 in Sixth Circuit Court to delay circulation of the payday-lending…
We now get our first overlap between referendum and initiative petitioning. With the Attorney General’s (not the Surgeon General’s?) legally required explanation in hand, New Approach…
Last week I mentioned that Boys and Girls State appear to be suffering a long-term decline in numbers. Attendance at the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary events…
South Dakota is on top… of the lowest quintile for real state GDP growth in 2014: Two states—Alaska and Mississippi—posted GDP shrinkage in 2014. We almost joined…
Mr. Kurtz usefully notes former newspaperman turned Yankton city commissioner Nathan Johnson’s effort to open up city government. At Monday’s city commission meeting, Johnson suggested that the…