KELO-TV is asking all Legislative candidates to answer two questions on abortion policy: South Dakota’s current abortion law makes the procedure illegal with an exception…
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It’s easy for South Dakota legislators to bully LGBT South Dakotans with discriminatory legislation as a ploy to fire up their right-wing base when there…
A week after announcing emergency pay raises to prevent the staffing shortage in our state prisons from getting even worse, Governor Kristi Noem announced pay…
Tom Lawrence does excellent work documenting the substance of the conversation that Leah Bothamley and Tiffany Campbell attempted to have with Governor Kristi Noem at…
Cully Williams digs through Session Laws and sketches South Dakota Legislative districts throughout history. Williams’s maps show everything from the first legislative map of 1889,…
The SDGOP spin blog notes with proper but insufficient disdain the latest sally from the election deniers in the Republican Party’s midst. The Trumpist Boebert-aping…
When the Governor’s Office announced immediate pay raises for state prison personnel on Thursday, Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko praised Governor Kristi Noem for driving providing…
Senator Reynold Nesiba has the good sense to sponsor Dakota Free Press. He also has the good sense to reach out to voters in their own language:…
In a letter to the Rapid City Journal, Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) accuses fellow Republican legislators of voter fraud: Scorecards that fairly report elected officials’ voting…
SDCL 12-21-11 allows losing Legislative candidates to call for a recount if they come within two percentage points of the candidates who beat them. Three…