Kristi Noem has started off her governorship the way she ended her Congresswomanship: overseeing a deficit. The Legislative Research Council has issued reports on General…
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The proposal to refer Medicaid expansion to a popular vote in 2020 is just one of six ballot measures the Legislature will consider this week.…
Our Legislature is showing the good sense to forge ahead with industrial hemp, despite Governor Kristi Noem’s visionless resistance to jumping on that economic opportunity.…
Rookie Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) said at least week’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel that we’d see some video lottery legislation. This week he signed on as co-sponsor…
The first citizen question at yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel came from Julie Johnson… who, you know, as a registered lobbyist this year for the South Dakota…
District 3 legislators are having a hard time with transparency this Session. Not only are Senator Al Novstrup, Representative Drew Dennert, and rookie Representative Carl…
Governor Dennis Daugaard was inauguarated on January 8, 2011. In his State of the State Address three days later, Governor Daugaard deemed the 127-million-dollar structural…
I learn from Axios (via The Displaced Plainsman) that South Dakota is among the ten states with the highest percentage of its workforce affected by the…
Chief Justice David Gilbertson’s State of the Judiciary Address detoured to a State of the Fiduciary, as he said South Dakota has more money deposited…
Sales tax provides by far the single biggest chunk of South Dakota’s general fund revenues. In Fiscal Year 2018, the 4.5% we pay on our…