House State Affairs has six bills on its agenda this morning. Incredibly, three of those bills say nothing. Senate Bills 124, 125, and 126 are…
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The Senate advanced one bad bill for agriculture, the environment, and citizen participation last week; now the House has a chance to pass one good bill for agriculture, the environment,…
In more evidence that we all need to know our petition law, Rapid City municipal candidates may have to throw out some signatures they’ve collected and start…
Kinda surprising: Melissa Mentele’s filing of an affidavit to challenge Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s rejection of her medical cannabis initiative petition. Really surprising: Secretary Krebs’s…
It’s official: I have already won half of my District 3 Senate campaign by driving the current underperforming incumbent from his seat: After 10 years in…
KELO-TV reports that store owners face a “learning curve” in implementing the half-penny increase in the state sales tax coming June 1: “I don’t know how that’s…
The most vile speech of the week in Pierre comes from Rep. Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls). Speaking in favor of overriding Governor Dennis Daugaard’s veto of…
This week’s Don’t Give Up Award goes not to Rep. Fred Deutsch, who grimly promised today to spend all summer coming up with a stronger, better, faster way…
Transphobia, same-sex marriage, colonialism, genocide, and Keystone XL? Why yes, it is all connected, just like all of us. So say the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota signatories…
A Catholic South Dakota Democrat and a Mormon Utah Republican, and a British comedian all come to the same conclusion: Donald Trump is a fraud. John…