Higher interest rates appear to be reining in new construction in Sioux Falls. Rae Yost reports that, over the first nine months of the year,…
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Summit Carbon Solutions is trying to rebound from the Public Utilities Commission’s stunning rejection of Summit’s carbon-sequestration pipeline with a redoubled charm campaign. Summit CEO…
According to new data from the Prison Policy Initiative, South Dakota keeps 6,500 people locked up each day. That’s an incarceration rate of 824 per…
The Legislative Research Council reinforces the point I made last week that, yes, taxes are low in South Dakota. An August 7 research memo to…
Maybe South Dakota wouldn’t have had quite as big of an economic recession in 2022 if the state hadn’t denied itself $103 million in easy…
It’s a good thing we kept the federal government going this weekend: we need to pay those nice people at the Department of Justice so…
House Democrats yesterday delayed the vote on Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s surprise shutdown-averting stopgap spending bill to read it and make sure the Speaker hadn’t snuck…
Hey hey! The United States federal government continues to function, at least for 48 more days. Yesterday Speaker Kevin McCarthy reversed himself, agreed with the…
“I was raised by a dad who often reminded me, ‘Kristi, we don’t sell land, because God’s not making any more land….” Kristi Noem has…
Gun and ammo makers who heed Governor Noem’s invitation to move from the coast to the prairie will enjoy some reduction in tax burden. The…