Now that’s she’s running for Governor, Rep. Kristi Noem has probably forgotten her ridiculous campaign pledge to drive 9.1% GDP growth with voodoo economics (the voodoo consisting of…
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President-Elect Donald Trump is surrounding himself with nonsensical Cabinet picks. For Secretary of Education, he picks a billionaire who has never studied or worked in public…
Teachers are full-time employees after all. So says Fifth Circuit Judge Richard A. Sommers in reversing a child support decision. Recall that last summer, child…
The Army Corps of Engineers has told Dakota Access they have to wait to finish their pipeline. Working on a Sunday, Corps Assistant Secretary for Civil…
Carrier/United Technologies is receiving $7 million in corporate welfare to keep 1,069 jobs averaging $30.91 an hour at its Indianapolis plant, even as C/UT moves 400…
In our discussion of Trump’s victory among red-state moochers, I cited David Roberts’s smart linkage of the social issues that some South Dakota Democrats are telling…
Pat Powers dings Attorney General Marty Jackley for not including enough representatives of crime victims on his new task force to figure out how to clean up…
While Democratic leadership has put Senator-Elect Reynold Nesiba on a “leave of absence” from the Senate Democratic caucus (was that what Brian Gosch called it when he…
Nobody seems nervous about the vote count in South Dakota. The margins were all big enough in our top-ticket races that no one is calling for…
Victoria Lusk reports that payday lender Check’n Go is closing its doors next week, thanks to voters’ wise decision to cap short-term interest rates at 36%…