While Democratic leadership has put Senator-Elect Reynold Nesiba on a “leave of absence” from the Senate Democratic caucus (was that what Brian Gosch called it when he…
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Don’t count on recounts changing the Election Day results. Today’s case in point: South Dakota’s District 25 House race. In one of the few non-losing results for…
Ah, South Dakota, land of Trumpism writ large. We want to build a wall… New security barriers are in the works for the state’s Capitol…
Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act, includes one potentially unconstitutional section. Scroll to the bottom and read Section 68: There is hereby appropriated from the…
Hey, ammosexuals! Hey, Rep. diSanto! I know you enjoy modeling, but try modeling gun safety: you only put your finger on the trigger when you are going…
The South Dakota Board of Elections mustered a meager quorum today (five of seven members on the conference call at the start, but only four of seven members…
Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) apparently thinks the public is tuned in enough to the details of managing the Senate that he used his own campaign funds to send a…
Returning Republican District 9 Senator Deb Peters wins recognition as one of Governing‘s eight Public Officials of the Year… mostly for supporting more taxes: In South Dakota,…
I was having a perfectly lovely day until I learned that a woman has accused one of the few new Democrats going to Pierre of acting…
…but IM 22 will make ballot question finance more quickly transparent! If Reps. Don Haggar and Jim Bolin were really worried about the influence of…