Speaking of disempowerment by Executive pressure, Mayor Steve Allender of Rapid City sounds unhappy with the state government’s ongoing effort to usurp local control. On Twitter…
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In an NBC report on the factors behind North Dakota’s and South Dakota’s declining coronavirus rates (primarily, a critical mass of people seeing friends and…
While South Dakota prepares to sock coronavirus relief dollars away in the bank to fund future parochial non-pandemic budget whims, the Biden Administration and the…
Making clear that they have no intention of respecting the will of the voters, not to mention that the initiative process is insufficient to check…
In more edge-nattering, Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) last week proposed House Bill 1221, which would spend $750,000 to plop statues of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,…
Say, here’s a wrinkle I didn’t notice on my first pass through House Joint Resolution 5003, Representative Jon Hansen’s latest chipping-away at our initiative rights.…
Governor Kristi Noem has done a remarkable job of not spending federal coronavirus relief dollars on coronavirus relief. Now Representative Chris Karr, who came down…
South Dakota’s legislators are doing their part in the nationwide Republican war on voting rights. In their ongoing effort to let fewer voices be heard…
Amendment A is toast, for now. Sixth Circuit Judge Christina Klinger yesterday nullified South Dakotans’ vote to write recreational marijuana, industrial hemp, and the regulation…
Representatives Chris Karr (R-11/Sioux Falls) and Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) have both tested positive for coronavirus. Both appear maskless at the Capitol in the recent photo…