Last month, Attorney General Mark Vargo issued draft explanations of two initiatives proposing to repeal South Dakota’s sales tax on food. The Attorney General’s drafts…
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Mark Vargo made a mistake yesterday. The Attorney General read the initiatives proposed by Dakotans for Health to repeal South Dakota’s state sales tax on…
Speaking of government campgrounds, did you know South Dakota has a law prohibiting government from unfairly competing with private campgrounds? SDCL 9-38-1 allows municipalities to construct…
According to Governor Kristi Noem’s various executive orders, South Dakota is in a disaster and a state of emergency, but we are not in a…
The Legislature had before it five bills to address the conflict between the rural electric cooperatives and the municipal utilities who can unilaterally seize the…
The Republican Legislature likes playing culture war because it keeps them from having to address really hard issues that don’t mobilize the voter base, like…
While the Legislature labors under the illusion that it can practice medicine, it has no problem abdicating its role to deal with complicated issues like…
Who needs cage-fighting when you can attend, for free, the biggest, bloodiest brawl in South Dakota: the third big meeting of the Electric Services in…
The Interim Committee on Electric Services in an Annexed Area (perhaps better labeled the Electric War Committee) posted seven documents from its July 25 hearing.…
Picking a side in the fight between rural electric cooperatives and municipal electric providers over city government’s ability to annex territory and take equipment and…