The GOP spin machine is going to have to retool its snarky partisan attacks on Rick Weiland’s proposed anti-corruption ballot initiative. The wide-ranging South Dakota Government Accountability and…
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Remember how Attorney General Marty Jackley is arguing that the Supreme Court’s ruling for same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges means the Eighth Circuit should throw out…
[Disclosure: South Dakota Farmers Union will likely pay me to circulate the petition for the initiated constitutional amendment we’re about to discuss. I would respond to…
“In South Dakota, we don’t spend money we don’t have,” says Governor Dennis Daugaard, celebrating South Dakota’s third-best fiscal solvency. We don’t spend money we…
Saturday I reported that Lisa Furlong of North Sioux City has created a ballot question committee, South Dakotans for Fair Lending, whose stated mission sounds…
The Legislative Research Council has produced the fiscal impact statements required for Consistent South Dakota’s ballot initiatives to outlaw the transfer of tobacco and alcoholic…
The usury industry appears to be mobilizing more resources to fight the proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at 36% and box predatory payday lenders out…
Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) and other members of the Legislature’s Mugwump Rump are calling for a special session. The KCCR interview with Rep. May Wednesday made it sound like…
An eager reader paging through state government documents (because that’s what Dakota Free Press readers do!) notices this flowchart showing who got the $8.9 million in gaming…
The source of the accusation that Scotland-bound Rev. Rep. Steve Hickey committed Bosworthian fraud on his 2012 nominating petition is Hickey’s former District 9 Republican ticket-mate and…