Last week, the Pierre Capital Journal ran an article by Phil Torres headlined “Libertarian Party Gains Momentum Amongst SD Voters“. The article provided no evidence…
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The House of Representatives gets a chance today to spend another chunk of that federal assistance South Dakota got to survive the pandemic. On today’s…
Spending public funds on political campaigns is illegal under SDCL 12-27-20. But that statute doesn’t specify any penalty, so right now, if your school board…
Speaking of poor political performance, Dana Hess notes that Governor Kristi Noem has failed to take advantage of a bigger South Dakota Capitol press corps,…
Al Novstrup fails again. Brown County spent $4.5 million last year to buy a building out in the industrial park that they hoped to turn…
Senate king Lee Schoenbeck levels his party’s Fox/Breitbart-addicted radicals with a critique on his party’s radical “Freedom Caucus” that could apply just easily to his…
South Dakota offers the highest pay in the nation for jurors, $50 a day, plus mileage. That matches what Uncle Sam pays jurors in federal…
Senate Bill 40 was on its way to expanding democracy, giving South Dakotans the chance to vote at primary on candidates for all statewide elected…
In double-proof that no bill is ever really fully dead in Pierre, House Local Government yesterday dug up Senate Bill 82, a sensible poll-watcher regulation…