Our successful referral of Senate Bill 69—now Referred Law 19!—to a public vote creates the need for the Legislature to conduct some minor yet urgent statutory clean-up…
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Secretary of State Shantel Krebs received two referendum petitions this morning at the State Capitol. On behalf of thousands of South Dakotans, I submitted petitions to…
In a week consisting mostly of responding to remarkable political news with regurgitated press releases from its patrons instead of any original analysis, Dakota War College limps forward with a question about…
Stand down from red alert! The Affordable Care Act lives, King v. Burwell is dead, and Justice Antonin Scalia is apoplectic. I open with Scalia, because he is…
Mark Walker of that Sioux Falls paper looks at a Pew Charitable Trusts Stateline report that discusses what states are doing to help ex-offenders get back into the workforce. 70…
Sixth Circuit Judge Kathleen Trandahl has rejected Erin Ageton’s lawsuit against Attorney General Marty Jackley for what she called an incomplete explanation of the proposed ballot…
My local paper runs an editorial from its Sioux Falls counterpart that gets standardized testing and parent and student rights really, really wrong. Let me try to…
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is offering marijuana proponents a chance to toke up before the medical cannabis measure makes the ballot. The tribe voted last week to…
In a departure from his standard form, Gordon Howie provides a quote from a named source in his continued misguided flacking for convicted felon Annette…
Minnesota fur farmer Terri Petter won a state license to display her wolf pups in Deadwood last month, but she may need a new place to…