Amidst the outbreak of freewheeling spending in our cash-flush Capitol, my favorite bill of the 2021 Session is House Bill 1278, wherein we declare that…
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In 2018, Senator Jim Bolin tried to hamstring our power to write our own laws by placing on the ballot Amendment X, which would have…
On the first day of the 2021 Legislative Session, Joint Appropriations received a budget overview from the Bureau of Finance and Management. In that presentation,…
Legislators looking to join the Governor in trying monkeywrench the implementation of the will of the voters in South Dakota to legalize cannabis will have…
Dennis Kucinich cemented my conversion from slogan-swilling Republican to real-world, pragmatic Democrat with his long-standing argument that universal health care would save lives and save…
South Dakota continues to fall short of the statutory target teacher salary established in the big Daugaard reform of 2016. According to the Department of…
Governor Kristi Noem gets another year to sit on her federal coronavirus relief funds. Bob Mercer reports that the coronavirus relief/budget package that Congress passed…
Evidently realizing his pretense of “negotiating” by shouting radical demands after the real negotiators in Congress have sealed their deal, Donald Trump yesterday signed the…
Seeing his throne and relevance slipping away, Donald Trump is now trying to reclaim some popular support the same way he held onto farmers’ backing—by…