Elisa Sand tweets that the Aberdeen City Council voted last night to express its opposition to the gerrymandering practiced by the South Dakota Legislature and its support…
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Last week Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) tickled the South Dakota Right to Lifers who just elected him their president by saying he will introduce a bill…
The advisory board putting together the new state debt collection agency (that’s the “Obligation Recovery Center” created with no small contention by House Bill 1228 this year) meets Tuesday…
Good grief: we’re headed for a 2016 Legislative Session dedicated to the distraction of abortion politics. So signals new South Dakota Right to Life president and District 4…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students meets again next week Wednesday, September 9 out at the country club. After one more morning slideshow from…
The ratio of registered Republicans to registered Democrats in South Dakota is roughly 7 to 5. The ratio of Republicans to Democrats in the South Dakota…
Rookie Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) told Ken Santema two weeks ago that she sees an imbalance of power in Pierre that favors the executive branch: Going into her…
Wait a minute: Kevin Woster floats the possibility of Rapid City journalist and filmmaker Sam Hurst running for U.S. Senate, and Pat Powers derisively dismisses…
Technology giveth, and technology taketh away. The good news is that technological progress is allowing the Legislative Research Council to clear some shelves of old books and…
The South Dakota Dashboard reminds legislators that Pierre really is responsible for South Dakota’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher salaries. Processing Census data for FY 2013, the Dashboard reports that South Dakota’s K-12 per-pupil spending…