Next year’s funding for teacher pay, state employee raises, and other items remains in limbo on the last regular day of the Legislative Session (while legislators have spent…
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Get your tickets now for McGovern Day, the South Dakota Democrats annual fundraising dinner, in Sioux Falls. This year’s dinner speaker is our new national…
SDPB is playing live video from the Senate today. As I listen to Senator Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) ask whether South Dakotans can trust the Legislature to…
Support South Dakota’s best independent journalism: donate to Dakota Free Press via PayPal! House Ways and Means stayed up all night to approve the Republican…
Governor Dennis Daugaard cheers final passage yesterday of four bills relating to corruption: Today #SDLeg gave final passage to HB1052, HB1073, HB1076, and SB27 –…
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…