The South Dakota Rural Electric Association has turned to another Republican establishment figure from Aberdeen to run its largely socialist operations. In October, SDREA picked…
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Last year the South Dakota Rural Electric Association thought a Daugaard lackey and Keystone XL propagandist with a criminal justice degree would make a great general…
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…
The most fun you’ll have in Pierre this week is Thursday’s meeting of the “Electric Services in an Annexed Area” Interim Committee. The Legislature empaneled…
According to Bob Mercer’s headline, municipal electric lobbyists say “Different legislators should have been chosen.” A couple hundred thousand voters across South Dakota express their…