The clock started ticking last night on Senator Lance Russell’s big decision. District 30 Republicans picked the Hot Springs incumbent to carry their banner in…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard’s money apparently gets better with age. After a mixed record of success in picking primary winners in past elections, Daugaard saw his…
Dead men tell no tales, but they win elections in Rapid City. District 32 Republicans had three candidates for two House seats. 35% of them…
On Monday, I made three primary predictions. Yesterday, voters proved me close on two out of three: Wrong: Like most observers, I predicted the gubernatorial…
The Big Pharma lawyers suing to remove Initiated Measure 26, the prescription drug price cap, from the November ballot have subpoenaed sixteen people involved with…
District 9, come November, you get to pick two Representatives from among four candidates: Democrats Toni Miller and Michael Saba and Republicans Senator Deb Peters…
Patrick Lalley invited me onto the airwaves yesterday to talk primary politics. Lalley gave me credit for writing some of Kristi Noem’s campaign material—and you…
The Legislative Research Council has released prison population data for April 2018. The state penitentiary in Sioux Falls had 4% more prisoners than projected in…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson thought Henry T. Nicholas’s crime victims bill of rights—branded by Nicholas as “Marsy’s Law”—was a bad idea when it came before…
In my letter to the editor last week addressing why the Brown County Sheriff’s race is a contest between two unendorsable Republicans, I summarized Sheriff…