The “strongest economy in America” is still generating the second-lowest teacher salaries in America: The latest data from the National Education Association shows South Dakota…
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The first bill killed in the 2023 Session is House Bill 1001, which sought to restore the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s ability to subpoena…
Bubbling on out swift Senate’s stove is Senate Bill 52, an extensive revision of laws related to prisons, sentencing, executions, and other matters. The Department…
Last year, the Legislature approved $200 million in government grants and loans to build housing infrastructure. Governor Kristi Noem has let that money sit stagnant…
This Sunday, the 50th anniversary of the overturned Roe v. Wade decision, women nationwide will march to protest the Alito Court’s reversal of their autonomy and equal…
In 2002, Bob Newland led a campaign for a constitutional amendment (Amendment A) to give defendants the right to argue the merits of the laws…
Scary things pop into my inbox every now and then. Among the scariest is this reminder from the Secretary of State to file my campaign…
Governor Kristi Noem has offered to build divisively conservative Hillsdale College of Michigan an entire campus in South Dakota. Some Republican legislators think it would…
Rookie Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) served as one of Governor Kristi Noem’s chiefs of staff (before she finally gave up on South Dakota advisors…
The South Dakota Republican Party machine has scared Representative Kevin Jensen (R-16/Canton) out of his bid for party chair. But the conflict of interest the…