Uh oh—another Madison High School debate alumnus is running for the South Dakota Senate! Hoping to join me in the upper chamber next winter is David Bergan. He…
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If you’re disgusted with the South Dakota Legislature, a group called Accountable South Dakota wants you to come to coffee tomorrow morning. They are organizing a protest…
The South Dakota state servers are broken again—I can’t access the Legislature’s website, the Secretary of State’s, the Governor’s, nada. So I can’t check right now whether…
The South Dakota House of Representatives just rejected House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s 0.5 percentage-point sales tax increase to fund increased teacher pay. Here’s the roll…
The payday lenders are waging a desperate multi-front war to stop South Dakotans from stopping their loan sharking. Payday lender boss Rod Aycox has spent…
Several days after Rep. Rev. Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) saw the light and withdrew his ill-informed, fear-mongering, and unconstitutional anti-refugee bill, his reliably reason-impervious neighbor…
When we get to Pierre, maybe we’ll call ourselves the Anti-Ridiculousness Caucus. For Immediate Release: South Dakota Legislative Candidates Call for Veto of Transgender Bathroom…
Eager reader Joseph Nelson asks an interesting question: does Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) still get paid the $123 per diem for expenses for attending the Legislative Session…
Was Senator David Omdahl born insensitive, or is it a lifestyle choice? After spewing his ignorant spite toward transgender kids in a shocking public comment in Sioux…
Today was not a good day in the South Dakota Legislature. Social media is aswirl with the ignorance, dissemblage, sexism, and spite displayed by the Republican majority…