Four Republicans on the Legislature’s Rules Review Committee voted in July to cut Temporary Assistance for Needy Families by 10%, saving the state $1.5 million…
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Also holding a special meeting Tuesday will be the Lake County Commission, which needs to pull over a half-million dollars from reserves to cover next…
The big Special Session on the new prison is coming up Tuesday. Governor Larry Rhoden is thus loading up lawmakers and the voters with numbers…
Bloodthirstily chanting Waste! Fraud! and Abuse!, Trump and his civil-society-wreckers have stripped funds from Medicaid, SNAP, and other social assistance programs. But what about crop…
Governor Rhoden says the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is all about Freedom™, but the state’s enthusiasm for the Rally is predicated mostly on taxes: The South…
Kristi Noem does love skipping work to fly around the country and the world. While she was Governor, she tried to get the state to…
The Joint Appropriations Committee will hear a report from the South Dakota Retirement System on Thursday afternoon. Among the many fascinating facts about the successful…
Even Governor Kristi Noem’s own budget experts don’t support her Trumpist campaign rhetoric about President Joe Biden somehow tanking the robust American economy. In budget…
Among the first bills from the Governor is House Bill 1022, in which the Department of Education requests the $6 million in emergency funding to…
In another example of MAGAism stunting South Dakota’s growth, the Noem Administration has joined five other Republican-led states in refusing federal grants to boost clean…