The House has failed to override Governor Dennis Daugaard’s vetoes of House Bill 1149, the Democratic tax cut rejected by Republican budget hawks; HB 1156,…
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When Rep. Brian Gosch snuck the 80-mile-an-hour speed limit into the 2015 $85-million road tax hike, I pointed to research that suggested higher speed limits mean higher…
South Dakota agriculture relies on immigrant workers to bring in the crops, cattle, and milk. Another big South Dakota industry, tourism, relies on foreign labor to cook, clean, and…
Represent South Dakota is still beating the drum over the Legislature’s arrogant reversal of the voter-approved Initiated Measure 22. The organization assembled a few dozen activists to…
As the Legislature convenes one more time to deal with Governor Dennis Daugaard’s veto of two of their gun bills, an eager reader gets me reading about the…
The South Dakota Advisory Council to the United States Commission on Civil Rights met Friday afternoon in Aberdeen to discuss ‘The Subtle Effects of Racism…
And then there’s that darned pipeline. Donald Trump yesterday officially green-lit Canadian company TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline. “TransCanada will finally be allowed to complete…
KOTA-TV notes that Governor Dennis Daugaard lost his appeal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs decision to place the Pe’ Sla grassland in the middle of…
(Forgive me as I try to talk like my xenophobic neighbors. I’m just trying to understand them… and point out the failure of their political…