In the South Dakota Legislature, we Democrats measure success by how long it takes for our good ideas to be defeated. On Monday, Representative Jon…
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The excitement about passing a real tax cut for all South Dakotans didn’t last long. Two days after the House passed a two-step reduction of…
The Intertribal Buffalo Council’s project to restore buffalo to tribal lands catches the attention of the U.K. Guardian. The project is helping tribes build 55 buffalo herds…
Two of the Legislature’s Lakota members, Rosebud neighbors Senator Troy Heinert (D-26/Mission) and Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission), are out to change some names that indigenous…
While President Joe Biden gave a stirring speech yesterday bravely confronting real threats to democracy and challenging the Senate and all Americans to get on…
Unlike retiring Senator Timothy Johns (R-31/Lead), Senate Minority Leader Troy Heinert (D-26/Mission) hasn’t been arrested for drunk driving. But like his Lead colleague, Heinert plans…
Democrats in the Legislature are standing up against one of Governor Kristi Noem’s worst ideas, the burial by “merger” of the Department of Environment and…
Say, why don’t we take that $350-million surplus that Governor Noem has fabricated from our federal coronavirus relief dollars and do something good for South…
After my morning chiding, Pat Powers wakes from his slumber to grumble that the Billie Sutton Leadership Institute and Troy Heinert both took Paycheck Protection…
Meeting in Special Session yesterday, the Legislature rubber-stamped Governor Kristi Noem’s wildly misdirected and self-serving use of the remaining $597 million remaining in coronavirus relief…