Senator Billie Sutton tried to throw a minor monkey wrench into the proceedings of the Senate on Veto Day this morning. After the Senate failed…
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Aberdeen’s sister march to Saturday’s nationwide student-led protest against gun violence and Congressional fecklessness gets a little attention in this morning’s paper. Organizer and Aberdeen…
Marty Jackley is trying to whack Kristi Noem from arguably opposite ideological perspectives. On Friday our Republican Attorney General razzed our lone Congresswoman (and his…
Sioux Falls mayoral candidate Paul TenHaken is sticking with DSU’s story that no faculty or students participated in the Rounds for Senate campaign’s 2013 scam…
Term-limited Rep. Jim Schaefer (R-26B/Kennebec) is stepping away from the Legislature (he’s leaving challenging incumbent Democratic Senator Troy Heinert to Republican Joel Koskan). Stepping into…
Fans of ranked choice voting, take note: the South Dakota Legislature uses ranked choice voting! As I mentioned earlier, the Legislature’s Executive Board will meet…
Tomorrow isn’t just Veto Day in Pierre; at least four committees will meet: GOAC will convene at 8:30 a.m. in Room 362, before the scheduled Senate session…
Along with the three substantive vetoes I reported yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard issued two style-and-form vetoes on the final day of his consideration of bills.…
“The DSU team”? What DSU team?, says Dakota State University in response to AP’s queries about their involvement in the TenHaken/Rounds 2013 political troll-hunt: Dakota…
A glutton for punishment that even I didn’t want to incur, Megan Raposa analyzes the “new” South Dakota K-12 curriculum standards and finds, unsurprisingly, that…