The 2025 Legislature approved seven bills and one resolution affecting the initiative and referendum process. Governor Larry Rhoden vetoed the single absolute worst of those…
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Repealing South Dakota’s unusual and immoral food tax will put 4% more money back in hungry South Dakotans’ pockets than projected last fall. In a…
When she adopted as her own campaign promise the longstanding Democratic proposal to repeal South Dakota’s unusual tax on food, Governor Kristi Noem said exempting…
Secretary of State Steve Barnett must have read Dakota Free Press over the weekend and remembered he had that fiscal note for the hospital lobby…
South Dakota’s hospital lobby is tweeting and its partners at The Fairness Project say they are working on expanding Medicaid in South Dakota, but the South…
It’s Sunday, and everyone’s relaxing after getting sunburned at the lake yesterday, so I’ll go easy and just say that the South Dakota Association of…
The Legislative Research Council has posted its fiscal notes for Dakotans for Health’s proposed initiated law and constitutional amendment to expand Medicaid under the Affordable…
…and Sports Betting a Progressive Tax? The Legislative Research Council doesn’t think sports betting in Deadwood will be a big moneymaker. In a fiscal note…