House Bill 1001 would pull South Dakota out of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, a non-profit formed in 1991 to help postsecondary institutions from the Dakotas to Missouri…
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When Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) first floated his potty bill last month, I noted the principles behind Rep. Deutsch’s urgent need to ban transgender students from the…
Just what I wanted in my Christmas stocking—the first bills of the 2016 Legislative Session! HB, SB, whee whee whee! Now listed on the website that…
We tried this heading into the 2014 Session; let’s try it again! Dakota Free Press readers include some of the sharpest policy thinkers in state. So let’s…
That Sioux Falls paper’s new political reporter decided to write a Sunday piece about the South Dakota Democratic Party. Dana Ferguson’s report included the following statements:…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) continues to make stuff up to excuse his resistance to the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s teacher pay proposal. At the Stanley County…
Scott Meyer is young, brilliant, ambitious… and moving out of South Dakota. After winning election to the Brookings City Commission just this spring, Meyer announced last month…
Tasi Livermont offers a two-part (so far!) report on South Dakota’s teacher shortage and the challenge facing the 2016 Legislature to do something about it with the Blue Ribbon K-12…
The State Innovation Exchange has released a letter signed by legislators from 31 states reminding Americans that we can keep our country safe and welcome immigrants and refugees to…
Bob Mercer notices another task force producing lots of talk but little apparent action: There was enthusiasm to some degree when Rep. Don Haggar, R-Sioux Falls, received…