In political baseball, Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s support for the Blue Ribbon plan to raise South Dakota teacher pay has made him the new Stace Nelson of the Legislature:…
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House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) is at war with Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) over raising teacher pay. Rep. Schoenbeck has thrown in with the Governor and…
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…