Alas, Russian spy Maria Butina is breaking South Dakota men’s hearts again. Just as Ukraine is providing an object lesson in the occasional value in…
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The Rapid City shooting range remains alive in the Legislature. The Senate approved Senate Bill 175 on Tuesday, with Senator Joshua Klumb (R-20/Mitchell), who lives…
The excitement about passing a real tax cut for all South Dakotans didn’t last long. Two days after the House passed a two-step reduction of…
Republican legislators are using the prospect of voters’ approval of Medicaid expansion this November as one of their excuses not to cut our regressive sales…
In this year’s Session, legislators have considered putting four constitutional amendments to a public vote in November: turning the Secretary of Agriculture into an elected…
Representative Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) appears to have put a hoghouse bill to good use. After introducing House Bill 1328 as an empty bill on reporting…
Hoghouse bills are one thing, but hoghouse resolutions? Alongside Representative John Mills’s (R-4/Volga) well-thought-out and detailed House Resolution 7004, which condemns Governor Kristi Noem’s nepotism on…
Last week, the Senate killed Representative Linda Duba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) House Bill 1061, which would have given stronger legal status to the appraiser certification advisory council…
Contrary to Republican bushwah, the “tyranny” of vaccine mandates has not caused a shortage of health care workers at rural hospitals: Rural hospital officials who…
Maybe we could seize those Russian trust assets to cover a sales tax cut. The House passed Representative Chris Karr’s House Bill 1327 yesterday, offering…