Senator Lee Schoenbeck and rookie Representative Will Mortenson join this year’s cycle of the Republican war on people power with Senate Bill 86, which appears…
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After two weeks of work, and with two weeks left to introduce new bills in regular order, the Legislature has thrown 179 bills in the…
You know what’s funny? Kristi Noem complaining about elected officials not returning her calls: Gov. Noem on Thursday revealed she hasn’t heard from prosecutors investigating…
For the biggest, meanest, most dangerous attack on initiative in South Dakota, turn to Representative Fred Deutsch’s House Bill 1054, which would price grassroots, volunteer…
Get ready for controversy: legal eagle and Senate President Pro-Tem Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is lawyering into the whitecaps of South Dakota’s nonmeandered waters issue! In…
As a small state with a healthcare oligopoly, South Dakota apparently found it relatively easy to push the first batches of coronavirus vaccines out the…
Speaking of environmental deregulation, journalist and outdoorsman Kevin Woster thinks Governor Kristi Noem’s executively ordered merger the Department of Agriculture with the Department of Environment…
America is free again. So is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who had his first opportunity of this pandemic to speak as part of a White House…
As Governor Kristi Noem signs the death warrant for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, David Ganje notes that one of the DENR’s last…