Governor Kristi Noem’s pay raises for prison personnel depend on job vacancies remaining open. Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko told Joint Appropriations last week that the…
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There are worse places to bicycle than South Dakota, but not many. The League of American Bicyclists’ new rankings of the states for bike-friendliness place South…
When you cross the street, you should be looking left and right and left again, not at your phone. Texting and crossing can get you…
The Department of Transportation plans to rebuild Highway 46 through Wagner next year. You’d think Wagnerians would welcome some new concrete… but you’d be wrong.…
Say, what happens if that big carbon dioxide pipeline rich Iowa Republicans want to build across their state and ours springs a leak? Don’t worry,…
In her emotionally charged floor speech supporting the impeachment of killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, Representative Mary Fitzgerald (R-31/Spearfish) said that Ravnsborg’s actions “have misguided the…
Our legislature has hoghoused—i.e., “amended extensively“—just two bills so far. But Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is proposing an honest-to-goodness hoghouse bill to make work…
Among the numerous restrictions legislators are proposing to whittle away at Initiated Measure 26, the medical marijuana measure that South Dakota voters passed in 2020,…
Last year the House rejected House Bill 1112, which sought to expand the no-shooting zone around occupied buildings, churches, schoolhouses, and livestock from 660 feet…
I got my coronavirus booster shot at Hy-Vee. Now there’s a greater chance that I’ll just get shot: As part of its ongoing efforts to…