When the Legislature’s Executive Board drafted its plan to raise legislator pay and peg it to one fifth of median household income, we estimated that…
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Happy inauguration, says Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) as he rounds up the Republican wing of the South Dakota Republican Party to blast Governor Kristi Noem’s…
When even the Democrat-on-Democrat violence of the Pourier/Foster residency fake-fracas inspires zero chortling from the SDGOP spin machine (which is too busy converting its pants…
As I read Margaret Ross’s hearsay allegations about the residency of Senator-Elect Red Dawn Foster and Representative-Elect Peri Pourier, I wondered why she didn’t bring…
Sen. Jensen Plans to Formally Challenge Foster; Leader Langer Says Foster Qualifies to Serve The Foster/Pourier residency challenge takes three new twists this weekend. First,…
Indigenous voting rights group Four Directions did solid work fighting voter suppression and getting out the Native America vote on the Standing Rock Reservation in North…
The Republican leadership has put Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) in charge of the House Education Committee. What could go wrong there? Sure, it’s nice that…
Because he’s more interested in turning the South Dakota Legislature into a debating society—or maybe just a sub-channel of Fox News—Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) is…
Shad Olson’s attempt to deny two legally elected Lakota women their seats in the Legislature and disenfranchise Native American voters in District 27 has taken…
Governor-Elect Kristi Noem says she wants Sioux Falls realtors’ exec and businesswoman Rhonda Milstead of Hartford to fill the District 9 House seat Deb Peters forsook…