Governor Larry Rhoden’s first executive order of 2026 declares an emergency due to the December 17 windstorm that, among other chaos, knocked out power around…
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New York-based non-profit Mayday Health is suing Attorney General Marty Jackley in federal court over the state’s effort to block their promotion of abortion rights…
Kristi Noem visits Minnesota for a fascist photo op: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in the Twin Cities Tuesday as the Trump administration launches…
Former Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck says the Governor and Legislature wouldn’t have to play word games to break the school-funding law if they would just…
South Dakota Searchlight gets Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen to remind us how the Governor and Legislature get by with breaking the Janklow-era law that requires…
Rookie Republican Senator Curt Voight (R-33/Rapid City) forgets which party he belongs to and which state he lives in and proposes increased government regulation of…
Evidently hoping to convince us that Republicans really don’t coddle and pardon pedophiles, rookie Rep. Travis Ismay (R-28B/Vale) follows up his inconsistent recall bill for…
Along with its unnecessary digression into a redefinition of petition circulator that would land South Dakota in court again, Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s Senate Bill 33…
Julian Beaudion, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, recognized immediately that the U.S. invasion of Venezuela is unconstitutional: The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the sole authority…
If we can amend it to avoid another First Amendment violation and court injunction, Senate Bill 33 promises to make signature requirements for candidate petitions…