You’d think unchecked power would have more appeal. Senate Majority Leader Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic) and Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) commanded a Republican…
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Two men are running for Rapid City Mayor: two-term incumbent Sam Kooiker and his former police chief Steve Allender. Allender “retired” from the Rapid City Police…
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission actually cut Keystone XL opponents a break yesterday. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe told the PUC that TransCanada has been dragging its…
NPR’s Laura Sullivan is back on the South Dakota beat covering the ongoing Indian foster child scandal. Listening to NPR just now, I learned from Sullivan that federal…
You know, I thought the youth minimum wage might be the harder of the two referendum petition drives that we are starting today. But at least two…
Kea Warne from the Secretary of State’s office sends me an interesting update on petition law. Apparently, circulators can sign their own petitions! I was…
Governor Daugaard thinks we should tax amateur baseball coaches on the work they do for kids. To that end, he vetoed Senate Bill 159. Yesterday,…
Did it really take Dan Lederman seven sessions to realize he was failing at balancing family life and political life? Or did he just need to mouth…
I agree with Superintendent Mitchell that the Rapid City Area School’s proposed five-year, $6-million-per-year opt-out is necessary for maintaining Rapid City School programs. Three arch conservative…
The Libertarian National Committee met in Phoenix this weekend to discuss their plans for 2016. LNC at-large representative Bill Redpath urged the committee to budget $20,000 to…