The Legislature’s Executive Board is meeting today and tomorrow. Among the fun items on their agenda is an issue memorandum from the Legislative Research Council…
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Expect more mindless pablum from South Dakota’s Republican leaders. While Governor Kristi Noem sequesters herself on a social media refuge for hypocritical white-supremacist snowflakes, to…
South Dakota Democrats suffered another devastating election, as Republicans dominated every called or callable race on the 2020 general election ballot. Note: our morning-after reporting…
Some Republican crybabies in the Legislature are mad that they can’t get more welfare checks from the government. Governor Kristi Noem is trying to give…
A couple years ago, we raised legislator pay 90%, in the hope that better pay would lead to better legislating. That hasn’t happened yet, but…
Speaker of the House Steven Haugaard has had coronavirus for two weeks. He says he’s had a fever the whole time and has lost sixteen…
Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) is seeking reëlection so he can go back to Pierre and push more angry-dad legislation to get back at his…
In galling hypocrisy, Pat Powers fabricates political outrage at South Dakota Democrats for supposedly voting against coronavirus relief: Check this out. You’re not hearing it…
Meeting in Special Session yesterday, the Legislature rubber-stamped Governor Kristi Noem’s wildly misdirected and self-serving use of the remaining $597 million remaining in coronavirus relief…
One of the first people to die of coronavirus in South Dakota was Representative Bob Glanzer. Yet with the coroanvirus pandemic raging worse than the…