Amidst the Legislature’s zeal for repealing Initiated Measure 22 (and rubbing that repeal in voters’ faces), I’ve been keeping an eye out for signs they might…
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Senator Stace Nelson has rounded up some fellow cranky conservatives to challenge the practice of “vehicle bills” or “carcasses.” Nelson and eleven other Republican legislators* have asked…
Revenues are dwindling, the budget is in peril, but Happy Valentine’s Day, ladies! The South Dakota Legislature spent this afternoon chipping away at your bodily autonomy. House Bill…
Republican legislators have been trying to placate crackerbarrel crowds made grouchy by the repeal of Initiated Measure 22 by promising to pass replacement bills that will enact the policies voters…
—Knock knock! —Who’s there? —Not Mexican corn buyers, if one Mexican Senator gets his way: Mexico is one of the top buyers of American corn in…
Does no one in the Republican Party respect the will of the voters? Senator Mike Rounds admits that a majority of South Dakotans who contacted…
In his nomination acceptance speech last July (back before we jumped the continuum rails into this strange alternate reality where black is white and ignorance is strength),…
Last month, Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) said he wanted to introduce a “stay in South Dakota” requirement for the Opportunity Scholarship, the $6,500 we offer…
Three months ago, Governor Dennis Daugaard said the state revenue outlook wasn’t great. Today, his Bureau of Finance and Management tells us the revenue outlook is worse…
Having trouble pronouncing your doctor’s name? Your prognosis just improved by 0.4 percentage points. A new study published in the British Medical Journal finds Medicare patients treated…