Radical right-wing Representative Trish Ladner (R-30/Hot Springs) and Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) are trying to keep taxes down for their West River ranching constituents.…
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More than five years ago, the Legislature passed 2016 House Bill 1007, directing the Department of Revenue to get SDSU economists to update the soil…
Governor Noem’s well-subsidized brothers must want to grow some grass. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which the Governor can proceed to bury now…
The South Dakota House of Representatives Friday saved truly small farmers from facing a big tax increase. House Bill 1085 tinkers with the criteria for…
Here’s how white colonizers operate: invade and steal indigenous land, force the indigenous people onto reservations controlled by the colonizers, lease that reservation land out…
Democratic legislator Jim Peterson tried for years to pass a plan to improve water quality with agricultural property tax incentives for grassy buffer strips along…
Among the documents received by the Legislature’s Agricultural Land Assessment Task Force last week was this handy four-page guide to the Agricultural Land Productivity Formula,…
Brookings County is offering tax breaks to folks who actually need it: flood victims! Due to extensive flooding countywide, the Brookings County Director of Equalization…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) is already too busy polishing his go-karts to bother filling out the Legislature’s summer study survey. But with Lake Kampeska bearing…
The proposal to refer Medicaid expansion to a popular vote in 2020 is just one of six ballot measures the Legislature will consider this week.…