The St. Louis Federal Reserve summarizes new research on government action, state capacity, and the spread of coronavirus. The research finds that bigger, more robust…
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As we’ve learned from Reagan to Thune and Janklow to Noem, Republicans only hate big government when they are campaigning; once they are in power,…
The Legislature killed both Rep. Tom Pischke’s latest Angry Dad Vengeance Act and a meeting mandate for the Tribal Relations Secretary this week on the…
As a small state with a healthcare oligopoly, South Dakota apparently found it relatively easy to push the first batches of coronavirus vaccines out the…
Among my small pleasures this relaxing morning is clicking on the SDGOP spin blog’s link to right-wing-extremist platform Parler and getting the “404 Not Found”…
Representative Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) reopens the debate over publishing legal notices online (and joins Novstrup and Perry in Legislative font-fussbudgetry) with House Bill 1050. Reed,…
As more evidence of the hazards of South Dakota’s one-party regime, consider this photo from Governor Kristi Noem of the cabinet meeting she held yesterday…
Long-time cannabis advocate and user Bob Newland muses gently this chill morning on the line we may draw between the British tyrants whom we overthrew…
Among the documents received by the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee yesterday was Co-Op Architecture’s “Capitol Complex Building Inventory Evaluation,” a study of the state’s owned and…
Bob Mercer offers a great example of how Governor Kristi Noem’s plan to merge the Department of Environment and Natural Resources with the Department of…