A South Dakota Legislative Session can’t go by without someone grandstanding on abortion politics. Attorney General Marty Jackley offers Senate Bill 24, felonizing the already banned sale…
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Counties had a good news/bad news week in Pierre. Senate Bill 2, which would give counties a portion of alcohol tax revenues, made it through its first…
Desiring re-election, Rep. Kristi Noem has been making noise about the need to improve Indian Health Service. Hmm… would Indian Health Service have been able to improve…
Sanford Health exerts a lot of political pull in South Dakota (pull which will be tested by its current effort to undo the will of…
After you visit the final day of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society Winter Conference today, you’ll surely want to go relax with your organic friends someplace warm and…
The Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society’s Winter Conference is in full swing at the Aberdeen Ramkota. The conference includes a number of vendors pitching their wares…
Here’s an odd rich-poor disconnect in certain legislators’ thinking. On Wednesday, the Senate Taxation Committee approved Senate Bill 53, a package of bank franchise tax reforms,…
South Dakota Republicans’ latest spiteful, uncompassionate, and unconstitutional welfare drug-testing bill is officially in the hopper. House Bill 1076, sponsored by right-wing poster gals Rep. Lynne DiSanto…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) leads a whole bunch of cranky conservatives into battle tomorrow with House Bill 1060, to repeal the South Dakota Board on…