Georgia’s legislature passed a law in 2014 allowing schools to arm their staff, like South Dakota’s 2013 school gunslinger law. Guess what happened? Just like in South Dakota,…
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GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated in Wednesday night’s debate in Boulder that he’ll cut taxes $10 trillion without increasing the deficit, thanks to the fact that…
Attorney General Marty Jackley may give us some answers next week about the September 17 deaths of the Scott and Nicole Westerhuis family in Platte:…
Finding $75 million to increase pay is $32 million more difficult, according to information presented to the state Council of Economic Advisers yesterday: Jim Terwilliger told members…
$48,000. 39th. $75 million. Those are the parameters—not the plan, just the parameters—that the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students issued from their final…
Republican Secretary of State Shantel Krebs previews (pre-empts?) the campaign message you’ll hear from South Dakota Democrats in every campaign in 2016: “I’d heard from bankers, I’d…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is meeting in Pierre right now. You can listen online as the panel tries to produce solid recommendations…
Speaking of CAFOs, Turner County is trying again to craft zoning regs that would allow Sonstegard Foods to concentrate six million laying hens just outside of Parker. Judge Tim…
The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources is taking public comment on its proposed revision of the General Water Pollution Control Permit for Concentrated…
Our elders recognize a bad deal when they see one. AARP surveyed 904 South Dakotans age 50 and over and, according to AARP-SD director Sarah…