Peters, Sutton, Tidemann, Ahlers, Anderson, Bartels—these are the six legislators whose phones should ring more than anyone else’s today. The Senate tapped the brakes yesterday on…
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The newest Dakota Free Press Podcast, fresh baked in the sound oven this morning, is online! My co-host Spencer Dobson and I talk about Neal Tapio’s…
The key exchange over the Legislature’s cancellation of its promise to dedicate 63% of last year’s half-cent sales tax increase to teacher pay came in House…
The Legislature won’t give teachers any more money, but it won’t take any more money from retailers. The House yesterday shot down House Appropriations chief…
The Senate put a cork in Senator and paid Trump consultant Neal Tapio‘s pro-Trump/anti-Islam grandstanding yesterday. After allowing Watertown’s Trump spokesman his eight minutes of pathetic…
Mike Huether gets some free press for his 2018 buzz-building effort by co-signing one little letter with six other South Dakota mayors to Senator John…
Hey, do you remember how the Legislature got lots of us to support increasing the state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% last year by promising…
Since the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act includes a provision banning Medicaid from paying for care at Planned Parenthood (because Republican health care reform…
We’ll get at least one good pipeline protest in before Senate Bill 176 takes effect and gives the Governor more power to quash public demonstrations:…
Bob Mercer faintly exaggerates the “long slide” of Democratic voter registration in South Dakota. We’re not surging, but according to the March 1 voter count from Secretary of…