The Aberdeen crackerbarrel brought all sorts of fun. Both of northeast South Dakota’s parent-child legislator duos—Rep. Lana and Senator Brock Greenfield and Rep. Al and…
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Whether you’re heading to today’s crackerbarrels with curiosity or protest signs, you should be ready to ask your legislators questions. Some may want to ask about votes…
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…
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…