A new poll from South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy shows just how out of step Senator Al Novstrup and his anti-democracy…
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South Dakota makes the New York Times again, this time as part of the Republican Party’s nationwide effort to curb any and all voting rights that…
South Dakota isn’t the only place where elected officials are using tricky legal arguments to kill cannabis legislation and the initiative process. Last Friday, the…
Despite an underperforming state economy, South Dakota finagled a budget surplus out of the coronavirus pandemic, thanks largely to wind farm construction and federal coronavirus…
The South Dakota Supreme Court has done what Republicans appoint judges to do: uphold Republican election-rigging. Despite remarkably bad lawyering by the Attorney General’s office,…
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…
While everybody had their eye on Kristi Noem’s unconstitutional effort in the South Dakota Supreme Court to take away our constitutional right to write our…
I have no doubt that Tim Rave can walk and chew gum at the same time. But can he simultaneously serve as a gubernatorial appointee…
KELO-TV’s report on the grassroots effort to expand Medicaid in South Dakota claims that “there’s now two groups working to get Medicaid expansion on the…
The hospital lobby has finally filed its final Medicaid expansion initiative petition for circulation. The Secretary of State stamped the petition approved on March 25,…