Sioux Falls had three legislators and its own new school superintendent on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. Yet co-chair Senator Deb Soholt (R-14),…
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In a fit of sanity yesterday, the Legislature’s interim committee on the South Dakota High School Activities Association declared itself pointless and refused to recommend either of the…
When South Dakotans successfully suspended Senate Bill 69 last summer and put it to a vote in 2016 as Referred Law 19, they created a kink…
The Family Heritage Alliance’s political action committee has posted its scorecard for members of the 2015 Legislature. FHA Action rated our legislators on their votes on 19…
Pat Powers is told by his sponsors to portray the proposal of the bipartisan South Dakotans for Ethics Reform to create “Democracy Credits” to publicly fund South…
When invited last month to tour the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s pot-growing facility, District 8 Rep. Mathew Wollmann said he might have a schedule conflict but…
The non-fatal shooting of principal Kevin Lein at Harrisburg High School might prompt some South Dakota school officials to consider using the as-yet completely unused school gunslinger law passed by…
Ellee Spawn, Ethan Marsland… now Mark Winegar joins the roster of Democrats running for Legislature in 2016. The computer teacher/entrepreneur and Clay County Dems chief annoucned…
Bob Mercer posts an exceptionally interesting letter from Governor Dennis Daugaard to the Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee. In the letter, dated October 1, 2015, the Governor announces…
Ethan Marsland is the first declared candidate for District 33 House. He sat down with Dakota Free Press Friday to discuss how he would serve his District 33…