Democracy won a few battles in the Legislature yesterday. Most notably, the House killed House Bill 1275, which would have required ballot question petitioners to obtain…
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After Senator Al Novstrup got done calling for racial and ethnic profiling, Senate State Affairs shot down Senate Bill 200, Senator Neal Tapio proposal to…
Back in 2015, the new American Civil Liberties Union policy director for South Dakota, Libby Skarin, warned Senate State Affairs that legislation it was considering…
Possibly the single-most important quote to come out of the Senate State Affairs Committee’s hearing of Senate Bill 200, Neal Tapio’s unconstitutional and unworkable ban…
When Dennis Daugaard ran for Governor in 2010, he presented a 20-page plan for economic recovery (you know, from the second Bush Recession that Barack Obama…
LEAD Brookings has invited me to come down and speak tomorrow, Thursday, to lead a session on “Investigative Research Training”… or What I Find with…
However the Republicans’ three initiative-wrecking amendments fare in House State Affairs this morning, a bunch of democracy defenders will hold a press conference in Sioux…
One candidate hoping to march straight from the Women’s March to Pierre is Sheryl Johnson, Democrat for District 11 House. Johnson posts her concern for…
I don’t interact much with law enforcement in Pierre, but when I do, I want a smart, tough prosecutor like Roxanne Hammond in charge: Hammond…
The Brown County Republican Party is complicit in the local anti-immigrant nativism that Senators Neal Tapio, Lance Russell, and Al Novstrup have been stoking in…