Oh, that wacky goofus Speaker Steve Haugaard! The Sioux Falls Republican thought he’d use his new power to punish Municipal League lobbyist Yvonne Taylor for…
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The winning wonk at yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel was rookie Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen). The new guy used his 5:48 opening speech to cite nine different…
Remember this flyer from the 2018 campaign? Transparent, the flyer for incumbent District 3 legislators Al Novstrup and Drew Dennert and the aspiring Carl Perry…
District 3 legislators are having a hard time with transparency this Session. Not only are Senator Al Novstrup, Representative Drew Dennert, and rookie Representative Carl…
We all know that “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency” is to conduct government business via a private e-mail server. One of…
When Lee Schonebeck talks, people should listen…. It only took Representative Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) two weeks at the Speaker’s podium to get himself sued,…
I really don’t like having to say that Don Haggar and Jeff Monroe were right. But these two extremist anarcho-capitalists were right to warn us…
Representative Kyle Schoenfish (R-19/Scotland) doesn’t have much to say, but at least he says something. Two weeks into the Legislative Session, I haven’t seen a…
In joining the unanimous Senate State Affairs vote to kill Senate Bill 7 last Monday, Senator Jordan Youngberg (R-8/Madison) made clear that he believes polling…
Why is South Dakota’s suicide rate double that of New York? According to new research from the Boston University School of Public Health, the youth…