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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To no one’s surprise, legislators have not mustered the two-thirds majorities in both chambers to call a Special Session to enact Governor Kristi Noem’s election-season…
Bob Mercer agrees that Governor Kristi Noem’s election-season advocacy of repealing the sales tax on food is a 180-degree turn from her clear repudiation of repealing…
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…
Given Governor Kristi Noem’s disagreement with both Senate President Pro-Tempore Lee Schoenbeck and Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch about where she stood on repealing…
When she adopted as her own campaign promise the longstanding Democratic proposal to repeal South Dakota’s unusual tax on food, Governor Kristi Noem said exempting…
An anonymous commenter makes an interesting point about Jamie Smith’s suggestion that we could make up for the lost revenue of a food tax repeal…
Democrat Jamie Smith showed up to talk to voters at the Downtown Sioux Falls Rotary Club’s gubernatorial candidate forum yesterday; Republican Kristi Noem and Libertarian…
When you’re holding a slim and questionable lead in a political race, one of the last things you should do is alienate the press and…
Predictably, Governor Kristi Noem is not willing to call a Special Session to enact her new campaign promise to repeal the food tax. She rejected…