Senator Mike Rounds and other Republicans celebrated Donald Trump’s swift approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yesterday federal Judge James Boasberg ruled that Rounds and…
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The state Department of Revenue is forcing the Falls Park Farmers Market in Sioux Falls to pay tourism tax. Why? South Dakota Codified Law 10-45D-2 imposes…
Among the do-nothing puffery from the White House this week is Donald Trump’s executive order telling Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to review education policies and…
As we know, Attorney General Marty Jackley has charged Ehab Jaber with one count of making a terrorist threat. Being a Muslim gun owner’s lawyer will…
I have a hard time getting excited about stories involving professional athletes. The particulars of why privileged sports millionaires commit heinous crimes get enough discussion elsewhere and don’t…
Governor Dennis Daugaard met with tribal officials last week to discuss tribal concerns with Senate Bill 176, the anti-protest law (yes, law: the Legislature included an…
South Dakota took the first full legislative swing of 2017 at homosexuals, atheists, gun owners, folks who sleep in on Sunday morning, and other sinners with…
A couple weeks ago, Senator Stace Nelson [R-19/Fulton] and eleven Legislative colleagues raised a stink about carcass bills and vote-trading. In a Valentine’s Day letter to Marty Jackley, Nelson…
Senator Phil Jensen’s crackerbarrel-roiling likening of LGBT South Dakotans to pedophiles extended the offensive diversionary tactics he and other Republicans took in pushing Senate Bill 149, the discrimination-in-adoption bill,…
Senator Stace Nelson has rounded up some fellow cranky conservatives to challenge the practice of “vehicle bills” or “carcasses.” Nelson and eleven other Republican legislators* have asked…