206 South Dakotans are running for the 105 seats in the South Dakota Legislature. 118 are Republicans, 86 are Democrats, and 2 are Independents. (More Independents…
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Ken Santema says the teachers union and other education advocates should have focused as much attention on Senate Bill 131, the new K-12 funding formula, as they did…
Among the documents we can have fun reviewing this weekend as we try to put the state’s felony charges against former EB-5 czar Joop Bollen…
Update 07:27 CDT: Big wheel keep on turning: Attorney General Marty Jackley tells the Aberdeen American News, “These are the initial charges…. We anticipate further charges.” ——————————————————————-…
Here’s one of the biggest reasons we need to elect a Democratic Governor in 2018: we’ll significantly increase the chances of getting Bernie Hunhoff to come back to…
If raising boring old regressive sales tax a half-percentage point to lift our teacher pay from 51st to 45th in the nation is being bold,…
Megan Raposa’s story this morning on the Sly Amendment to the new Senate Bill 131 K-12 funding formula gets one thing right: Raposa uses Senator Bille Sutton’s…
We’ve been having a pleasant conversation with Republican District 19 Senate candidate Stace Nelson from Fulton about putting Cabinet secretaries up for election and consolidating some…
The South Dakota Education Association tucks a good-sized Easter egg into my Sunday paper: Again, “bold” in South Dakota means increasing a regressive sales tax, spending a…
In the worst-kept secret in District 19, Stace Nelson is running for Senate. The former two-term House member, who took a break from politics after…