It didn’t look like any Blue Wave happened in South Dakota last year. We Democrats didn’t win any statewide seats or any more Legislative seats,…
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John Cunningham, one of the six people contending to lead the South Dakota Democratic Party, has issued his plan to rescue the party from a…
The Tornberg-Lucas Box Lunch of Appreciation isn’t the only chow option for Democratic State Central Committee members coming to Oacoma March 23 to elect the…
Hey, where’d the Partridge Amendment go? After all the work Senator Jeff Partridge (R-34/Rapid City) did to rewrite his automatic sales tax reduction into the…
The Legislature meets for just three days this week to reconcile bills passed in different forms by each chamber. Five bills are already in conference…
The latest bill report from the LRC lists five bills for which conference committees have been appointed to spend the last three full days of…
Seth Tupper notes that South Dakota is one of only nine states that have not legalized industrial hemp. Wyoming, one of the states where hemp…
Governor Kristi Noem did get her journalist shield law passed. On Friday Governor Noem signed House Bill 1074, which permits certain journalists in certain situations…
Who loves you, baby? Ann Tornberg and Larry Lucas, that’s who. If you’re present to cast a vote for state officers of the South Dakota…
As we survey the damage from the dwindling Legislative Session, we see that the Legislature defeated every resolution offered that would have placed entrusted the…