District 2 has its first declared Legislative candidate. Democrat Jenae Hansen from Turton says she wants to represent Hamlin, Clark, most of Spink, and a…
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Donald Trump is succeeding at putting “America First”—first on the list of threats to global stability: “The U.S. is now the most unpredictable actor in the world…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) is using his Legislative authority to push CAFOs while partnering with former state ag development director Paul Kostboth in…
When I first read Sen. Neal Tapio’s challenge to Secretary of State Shantel Krebs, I thought I could be reading an expression of outrage from…
Ah, the smell of money…. Mark Mickelson and Paul Kostboth have been trying to make it easier to set up and expand factory feedlots—concentrated animal…
Ronald D. Arnold’s probate documents indicate that his daughter, Kristi Noem, has misrepresented the family’s 1994 estate tax situation. According to the inventory filed in…
Now that a Democrat has won an Alabama Senate seat for the first time since 1992, South Dakota U.S. House candidate Shantel Krebs might want to…
Rep. Mike Stevens (R-18/Yankton) told the Yankton school board last night that the 2018 Legislature may consider 150 more bills than last year. That would…
British journalist Anna Jones spent a year traveling the world on a Nuffield Scholarship to explore how largely urban populations and media have become disconnected from farmers.…
The Animal Industry Board spent 90 minutes discussing the ban on video auctions of livestock in South Dakota. (I didn’t even know we had such…