In visualizing South Dakota’s weak shift toward Democrats in the midterm election, NBC News did not map the U.S. Senate race, since we had no…
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South Dakota’s voter turnout in the 2026 midterm dropped below 50% for the first time in at least 60 years. 310,298 South Dakotans cast ballots…
The Secretary of State’s Office released Thursday its 2026 Quarter 1 Business and Economic Data Analysis Summary. This economic report, prepared by Dakota Wesleyan University…
A lot of the headlines noted that yesterday’s April jobs report was better than expected. 115,000 new jobs beat the 65,000 that investors thought we’d…
Update 2025.04.30 06:03 CDT: Independent Brian Bengs qualified for the ballot with a 93.85% validity rate posted by SOS Johnson on April 28. Bengs topped…
Speaking of farm welfare, the Farm Service Agency has already handed out over 80% of the tariff reparations Trump promised the commodity crop farmers he…
Now for some statistical Legis-trivia: The 2026 Legislature passed 241 bills (just bills, not resolutions), 42.2% of the 571 bills filed. Only one has been…
Well, we think we’ll have enough beds in the new Rhoden/Venhuizen prison to hold all of our overflow prisoners, but South Dakota’s prison population growth…
Higher interest rates appear to be reining in new construction in Sioux Falls. Rae Yost reports that, over the first nine months of the year,…
According to new data from the Prison Policy Initiative, South Dakota keeps 6,500 people locked up each day. That’s an incarceration rate of 824 per…