At SDSU, Laurie Stenberg Nichols has been making $251,000 a year. She’s leaving to preside over the University of Wyoming, which will pay her a base…
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Just what I wanted in my Christmas stocking—the first bills of the 2016 Legislative Session! HB, SB, whee whee whee! Now listed on the website that…
Merry Christmas, believers in democracy! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs this morning certified the redistricting petition! This summer and fall, Farmers Union collected signatures to submit to South Dakota’s voters a constitutional…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is looking at Medicaid expansion from a partisan political perspective, so why don’t we? In his December 8 budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard…
On November 8, Rep. Kristi Noem said she would not vote to extend the EB-5 visa investment program without changes: Noem said, “I will review any…
Your Department of Labor and Regulation tweets a cute infographic showing the South Dakota equivalent average wages for Santa’s helpers at the North Pole. Naturally, such South Dakota…
We tried this heading into the 2014 Session; let’s try it again! Dakota Free Press readers include some of the sharpest policy thinkers in state. So let’s…
The plaintiffs in the Poor Bear v. Jackson County lawsuit concerning equal voting rights for Indians said they wouldn’t back down. Now they have filed their…
With one initiative petition certified and seven more pending, interested citizens may be wondering about the viability of challenging any of these petitions. The first consideration is…
After watching the processing time for rape kits nearly double over the last eight years from 30 days to 55, Attorney General Marty Jackley has finally…