Last week, Representative Susan Wismer and the rest of the Democratic caucus voted Aye on House Bill 1320, the 4.69-billion-dollar Fiscal Year 2019 budget. Rep. Wismer, a…
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One-party corruption is so bad in South Dakota that even honest Republicans can’t investigate it. Reps. Dan Kaiser and Elizabeth May tried to get the…
The only discussion of Medicaid expansion in the Legislature this year was a failed attempt by Trumpy Republican legislators, scared of both Barack Obama and…
Heading into the final day of the 2018 Session, the Legislature had dealt with 534 bills. They suspended the rules yesterday to add one more…
On Tuesday the Tax Foundation published an analysis of the state-by-state cost of Trump’s impulsive and ill-advised steel and aluminum tariffs. This analysis does not…
Knock another campaign issue off Kristi Noem’s list… kinda, sorta. Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakotans committed fewer violent crimes in 2017: “The crime…
Kristi Noem’s headline-grabbing but completely impractical invitation fro the NRA to move its 2018 convention to South Dakota promptes freelance writer Jim Kent to call her an…
A friend told me this weekend that he’s heard Kristi Noem is polling twelve points ahead of Marty Jackley in the Republican primary race for…
U.S. News and World Report issued its 2018 “Best States” rankings this week. If we’re known by the company we keep, then South Dakota came out…
Bob Mercer offers his observations on who’s shining in South Dakota’s race for Governor. Mercer leans a little toward Jackley for driving the conversation with…