What does Republican Governor Kristi Noem do when South Dakota runs a budget surplus? Brag about it and tuck it in the bank. What does…
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The SDGOP spin blog is off script again… and so is Americans for Prosperity. Pat Powers reports that the plutocrats at AFP are sending out…
South Dakota has banned ballot dropboxes, much to the anti-democratic glee of Secretary of State Monae Johnson and her office wingnuts, but Pennington County says…
Never mind nuclear power; the Legislative Executive Board has decided to direct legislators’ interim attention to ways to fund county governments and nursing homes. Rookie…
Governor Kristi Noem has vetoed five bills in the 2023 Legislative Session. One veto has already been sustained; the other four will be discussed by…
Governor Kristi Noem told KELO-TV’s Perry Groten yesterday that House Bill 1137, the Legislature’s 0.3-percentage-point reduction of the state sales tax rate, isn’t really a…
Perhaps true Republicans should be glad that Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) struggles to get any of his bills passed. The Senate has had to kill…
California can figure out how to tax lithium mining, but South Dakota can’t. Representative Kirk Chaffee (R-29/Whitewood) proposed House Bill 1072 to subject lithium to…
Mayor Paul TenHaken says Sioux Falls’s population increased by about 7,000 in 2022. So I guess the problems he sees arising from that growth are…
Who says Republicans won’t vote to raise your taxes? The Sioux Falls City Council is controlled by a Republican mayor and a Republican majority, and…