Quick statistical note, for those of you setting policy priorities based on actual data (from 2007 through 2016): Number of South Dakotans killed by opioid…
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Secretary of State Shantel Krebs reports that the Trump gun slump continues in South Dakota. Her office issued 18,664 new and regular concealed-pistol permits in…
Readers talk a lot on Dakota Free Press. Who talks the most? Here are the 50 commenters who clicked “Post Comment” most frequently in 2017: Thirteen of…
While I wait for the LRC to post the text of the truckload of new bills whose titles they published yesterday, I’m musing over Legislative…
The Secretary of State has posted the latest voter registration figures by county. 1,654 voters moved from active to inactive status last month, but the…
It’s pretty hard to write so much about the Legislature without thinking up ideas for good legislation of my own. I’ve offered blog bills in…
Removing Rep. Steven Haugaard before he’s promoted from Pro Tempore to Speaker will be more easily said than done. According to this morning’s voter registration totals…
The latest monthly voter registration figures show that, since the 2016 general election, the Secretary of State has removed 14,319 South Dakotans from the active…
Independent blogger John Tsitrian finds the Legislature’s proposed pay amendment reasonable, given that raising legislators’ annual pay from $6,000 to $10,200 is equivalent to what…
A couple weeks ago, John Tsitrian presented the surprising data that, under the Daugaard Administration, South Dakota’s per capita GDP growth has averaged a meager…