Rep. Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon makes a living selling federally subsidized crop insurance. South Dakota’s lone Congresswoman worked to boost spending on crop insurance in the…
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Rep. Kristi Noem is trying to spin the Department of Energy’s cancellation of the Deep Borehole Field Test as evidence that her Führer is hearing the anti-nuclear concerns of South Dakotans. I…
The federal government appears to be having the same trouble with sluggish tax revenues that South Dakota is having. On Wednesday, super-rich Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin…
We got our first door hanger in our local Aberdeen elections yesterday, from the Dave Lunzman for City Council campaign: “Sorry I missed you,” writes…
The state Department of Revenue is forcing the Falls Park Farmers Market in Sioux Falls to pay tourism tax. Why? South Dakota Codified Law 10-45D-2 imposes…
So for the last few years (and still today!), South Dakota has had the opportunity to expand Medicaid to provide health coverage to 50,000 South Dakotans…
Did you hear the one about the Presidential budget team who couldn’t do arithmetic? Not if you read the Republican blogs. While Donald Trump mutters…
Pat Powers reworks industry propaganda into dry rah-rah blurb on the House Republican tax plan, which includes the hilariously bad and widely opposed Border Adjustment Tax. Power recycles…
When I first heard the news about Montana’s Republican candidate for U.S. House, Greg Gianforte, assaulting U.K. Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in his campaign office, I…
The newest Dakota Free Press podcast is ready for your ears! In Episode #12, incumbent Aberdeen City Council candidate Dennis “Mike” Olson tells all about the fundamental…