When Indians and environmentalists rally to fight a big oil pipeline, Governor Kristi Noem portrays protest as riot and changes South Dakota law to throw…
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Governor Kristi Noem and some other opportunistic Republicans spent a day or two last week making a fuss over Representative Steven Haugaard’s utterance of three…
The Republican Legislature spent the penultimate day of the 2022 Session kicking sand in Governor Kristi Noem’s fiscal face. In a profound reversal, the recalcitrant…
Speaker Spencer Gosch is really looking hard for an excuse not to impeach killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. Gosch tells SDPB that the Governor’s continued effort…
The $1.5 million in additional funding that Governor Kristi Noem alleges killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has finagled from the legislators in an “unprecedented” closed-door…
Governor Kristi Noem alleges that our legislators, while dilly-dallying on impeachment, are giving killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg special treatment in the appropriations process: At…
Three strikes and you’re out—or at least, the Governor and Game Fish and Parks are out the $2.5 million in our tax dollars that they…
Here’s a curious new channel for propaganda and dark money on Kristi Noem’s behalf. Rob Burgess is launching something—political action committee? 501(c)3 non-profit? blog?—that he…
Our members of Congress and our Governor are really, really mad that the Department of Veterans Affairs proposal to “realign and modernize VA health care…
Bob Mercer, who has reported on the Legislature for 38 years (and worked downstairs from the Legislature for four years under Governor Bill Janklow) calls…