With controversy swirling about legislators’ conflicts of interest, Senator Randy Deibert (R-31/Spearfish) decided to get out while the getting was good. No, he’s not leaving…
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After a summer of waffling, the Lawrence County Commission last month finally rectified its Constitutional error and acknowledged that the First Amendment allows citizens to…
The South Dakota Newspaper Association renamed itself the South Dakota NewsMedia Association last month, because (a) who uses paper anymore? and (b) some of the…
South Dakota’s population continues to circle the drain Gann Valley. The U.S. Census Bureau calculates that South Dakota’s mathematical center of population, the place where…
My parents back in Lake County have had a police scanner on in their living room for decades. They listen mostly for police calls to…
Election-denying Secretary of State Monae Johnson and her questionable colleagues advancing their Republican Party’s goal of reducing the voter registration rolls. In October, Johnson managed…
While Attorney General Marty Jackley throws his weight behind an effort to undermine the Roe v. Wade amendment petition drive, another initiative that would subvert…
Dr. Harris’s working paper on the economic illogic of vouchers includes one sentences that will cause heartburn for constituents of the vast majority of South…
Vouchers, the transfers of public dollars to private schools that religious conservatives like Kristi Noem and Lee Schoenbeck so eagerly promote, don’t produce better education…
South Dakota Searchlight reports Governor Kristi Noem has issued 268 pardons in her five years in Pierre. Among those pardons is a Georgia resident who…