The South Dakota House came to its senses Wednesday and refused to let the Senate dupe them into giving the Senate an extra privilege. After…
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The Legislature has significantly scaled back Senate Bill 3, Senator Michael Rohl’s (R-1/Aberdeen) proposal to prohibit local governments from requiring permits for various home renovations.…
Yesterday was a noteworthy day in initiative trivia (initiatrivia?) in that it was not noteworthy. Speaker Jon Hansen and his fellow South Dakota Republicans, who…
Tripp County State’s Attorney Zachary Pahlke reminds us: don’t click that link in your e-mail! Someone in the Tripp County Auditor’s Office clicked that link and…
Among the 17 changes to election law that Secretary of State Monae Johnson presented to the Board of Elections yesterday is a bill outline that…
The Department of Corrections told the newly convened Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force yesterday that, as of June 30, 1,048 out of the 3,783 convicts it…
Before turning our prisons into another arm of the creeping theocracy, maybe South Dakota’s prison reformers should look at simpler plans to help prisoners regain…
Governor Larry Rhoden has booked Iowa’s deputy director of institutional operations Nick Lamb to replace freshly resigned and much maligned South Dakota Corrections Secretary Kellie…
Marty Jackley, or whatever staffer drafted the Attorney General’s explanation of Mike and Julie Frye-Mueller’s doomed initiative to tax retail transactions instead of property, has…
We were working our way toward a civilized consensus that we should rescind the Medals of Honor awarded to 20 United States Seventh Cavalry soldiers…