Six days before opening the 2022 Session, the South Dakota Legislature has 43 bills in the hopper. 26 of them deal with marijuana. (So much…
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South Dakota and five straight governors managed to get by with the same real estate appraiser certification chief for 28 years. But then South Dakota…
Make that eight arguments…. On December 23, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported gross domestic product figures for each state from Quarter 2 to Quarter…
Back in December, Tom Lawrence set the political class a-chatter when he reported that Senator John Thune was considering retirement. South Dakota’s third-term Senator told…
Dana Hess got out of Pierre just in time…. Governor Kristi Noem’s latest fake-out attack on transgender kids is now in the Legislative hopper as House…
In 2016, North Dakota cops got unusually rough with American Indians protesting construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline across the Missouri River, putting lives…
Fresh off his chamber’s capitulation to the Will of Schoenbeck in the 2021 redistricting process, Representative Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) wants to drag the Legislature into…
Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House January 6 Committee, said on ABC News yesterday that last January’s insurrection at the Capitol wasn’t just…
It’s hard to get reporters to cover the South Dakota Legislature and state government in general. The geographic isolation of Pierre, where the Legislature meets…