Special Session! Special Session! Chief of staff Tony Venhuizen is telling the press that his boss, Governor Dennis Daugaard, is considering convening the Legislature to…
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The Government Operations and Audit Committee meets tomorrow in Pierre. Among the agenda items is a conversation with the South Dakota High School Activities Association…
Governor Dennis Daugaard successfully outperforms my budget projection from a week ago and announces that South Dakota underbudgeted K-12 education by $16.9 million: State agencies demonstrated…
Despite great shopping weather, South Dakotans didn’t buy as much in May as the state expected. According to the latest LRC report on general fund…
A couple weeks ago, Citizens for Liberty released its 2018 Conservative Scorecard, which rated all 105 legislators on roughly a couple dozen bills that CfL…
Republican U.S. House candidate Neal Tapio thinks voting is a privilege, revocable if you support his opponent: Shantel Krebs is proposing to go “line by…
…But We’re Smoking Less! Despite multiple spring snowstorms, South Dakotans still got out and shopped more than expected in April. The latest state revenue report…
The Legislature’s Executive Board meets this afternoon in Pierre from 1:30 to 4:15 Central. Among the items of interest: 1. Rep. Mary Duvall (R-24/Pierre) would…
In January, Levi Breyfogle of Rapid City submitted drafts of two seemingly Libertarian constitutional amendments that he may petition onto South Dakota’s 2020 ballot. One…