Senate Minority Leader Billie Sutton (D-21/Burke), the Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2018 gubernatorial race, joins the chorus of disappointment greeting Governor Dennis Daugaard’s bleak final…
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Removing Rep. Steven Haugaard before he’s promoted from Pro Tempore to Speaker will be more easily said than done. According to this morning’s voter registration totals…
It’s anyone’s guess whether the House Republican caucus had more chuckles about sexual harassment yesterday. But they did for sure make one unpalatable decision: nominating…
Rep. Kristi Noem chirps without detail about her goals on the Trump Tax conference committee: I’ll be coming to these negotiations with two goals in…
South Dakota’s current budget faces a $33.7-million shortfall. Revenues are on track to come in $20.3 million lower than the Legislature expected when it wrote…
In his final budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard showed he intends to go out with a whimper, not a bang. Faced with troublingly stagnant sales…
A member of the 2012 Legislature tells Dakota Free Press that the House Republican caucus responded in during the 2012 Session with joking and derision to…
After a spate of hate-graffiti last spring, a couple more spray-painted swastikas showed up in Aberdeen last week. Local sandblaster Randy Metzinger removed the Nazi…
The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources hasn’t added any new information to its dossier on the TransCanada Keystone pipeline spill since November 30,…
The fracas that broke out among South Dakota Farmers Union members in 2016 appears to have been resolved in favor of the status quo. Last…