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,…
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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…
South Dakota Municipal League exec Yvonne Taylor sent an e-mail to League members yesterday explaining how Speaker Steven Haugaard has taken outrageous retaliatory action against…
Last May, the South Dakota Municipal League published in its magazine an editorial by its director, Yvonne Taylor, that called over 20% of the Legislature…
My Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) hates answering to the general public. Thus, he has joined sixteen other Republicans (and two Democrats, Representative Ray Ring and…
The discussion of the closed-door meeting Republican leaders held with District 27 residents trying to push the fake complaint about Representative Peri Pourier’s qualifications for…
Representative Steve Livermont (R-27/Martin) played bad neighbor today. After the Legislature seated him and his duly elected fellow Representative Peri Pourier (D-27/Pine Ridge), after his…