The South Dakota Board of Regents meets today and tomorrow at the School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. Among the agenda items is…
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Megan Raposa’s story this morning on the Sly Amendment to the new Senate Bill 131 K-12 funding formula gets one thing right: Raposa uses Senator Bille Sutton’s…
We’ve been having a pleasant conversation with Republican District 19 Senate candidate Stace Nelson from Fulton about putting Cabinet secretaries up for election and consolidating some…
In another unfortunate ding on public trust, a former auditor in the South Dakota Department of Revenue has been indicted for fraud. Steven Arthur Knigge…
Bob Mercer’s “Week Ahead in State Government” column is a useful heads-up on upcoming meetings and deadlines. However, he makes one important error in this week’s edition:…
As defense attorney Dana Hanna continues to wage media war on behalf of his client Stacy Phelps in the GEAR UP scandal, Lakota Country Times editor Brandon Ecoffey joins…
District 19 Senate candidate Stace Nelson looks at the EB-5 and GEAR UP scandals and offers a clear, simple proposal for tackling corruption in Pierre: put Cabinet secretaries…
With Governor Dennis Daugaard’s endorsement, Pam Roberts won her current position as South Dakota Republican Party chair last year. Now just beginning her second year in…
According to DCI, Stephanie Hubers knew something was wrong in Scott and Nicole Westerhuis’s budget fudgery at Mid-Central Educational Cooperative before the Department of Education…
In the worst-kept secret in District 19, Stace Nelson is running for Senate. The former two-term House member, who took a break from politics after…