The South Dakota Legislature briefly considered a Scott Walker/Wisconsin-style ban on collective bargaining for public employees in 2012. That bill quickly failed. But our Republican…
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We repeal your initiatives, ignore sexual harassment, and now we want you to raise our pay. Such is the pitch the Legislature’s Executive Board wants…
Amidst the flood of new proposals pooped out by the Legislature’s Executive Board yesterday is a plan to have lawmakers give a “State of the…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton took questions at yesterday’s Brown County Democratic Forum. What was on voters’ minds? Redistricting: Asked what impact holding the governor’s…
I wanted to talk positively about Meade superintendent Don Kirkegaard’s appointment as Melody Schopp’s replacement at the Department of Education. But various buzzing bees reminded…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
In today’s ballot measure trivia, an update from the Secretary of State to the Legislature’s Executive Board gives us the total number of petition sheets…
While South Dakota’s Republican leadership wallows in denial, other state legislatures are taking concrete action in response to allegations of sexual misconduct. Republican leaders in…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is sounding the same cautious budgetary tone that he did last year, citing lower-than-expected sales tax revenues to lower expectations for his…
Ardys Gosch and other moneyed Aberdonians bankrolling anti-immigrant rallies are working against economic development and education in South Dakota. Northern State University touts research from…