Kristi Noem likes to pretend that funding the federal government is just like her kitchen-table economics (which she couldn’t make work without huge infusions of federal…
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G. Mark Mickelson sponsored Initiated Measure 25, the buck-a-pack tobacco tax hike, with the promise of putting up to $20 million a year into vo-tech…
As bad as Donald Trump has made things for South Dakota agriculture, our farmers and ranchers are actually suffering less than their colleagues everywhere else…
Charging $500 per ticket and $5,000 a photo almost guarantees that Donald Trump and Kristi Noem won’t be listening to any real, working South Dakota…
The other day I noticed that Holabird political expert Nick Nemec claimed on Facebook that “contrary to recent reports,” he actually coined the term “priming the pump.” I didn’t…
The New York Times features a new economic risk calculator that tells me my white, educated family has only an 8.4% chance of falling into poverty over…
Now I get it: David Novstrup is quitting the Senate now because he wants to wait six years for the apparent lack of short-term impacts of the…
Unlike most Republicans, Donald Trump is a fascist. But like most Republicans running for President, Donald Trump is a fantasist on fiscal policy, peddling the same…
The American Legislative Exchange Council—where “Exchange” stands for exchanging the power of the people for the power of corporate colonizers—have issued their 2015 Rich States Poor…