South Dakota now excludes 5,735 registered voters from participating in the selection of governor, legislators, judges, county commissioners, and other state and local officials and ballot questions, ...

I’ve mentioned before that higher tax rates don’t appear to drive much migration among millionaires. A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that Norway’s recently ...

Trump’s Supreme Court is telling at least a few MAGA whiners to shut up. In addition to declining to hear some smirking chimps’ appeal of a school ban on vulgar “Let’s Go Brandon” shirts, SCOTUS last ...

Grown adult Nancy Turbak Berry can continue to wear her Mayday Health sweatshirt for now, but kids can’t wear the smirkingly vulgar “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts to school if the principal says no.

Donald Trump’s personal spite leads to more harm for South Dakota and the rest of rural America, as his toady Ag Secretary cancels the Rural Energy for America Program: The USDA just issued a final ...

Jospeh Zweifel, Democratic candidate for District 12 Senate, seconds Farmers Union president Doug Sombke’s call for a Special Session to enact a fuel-tax holiday… and makes a little political hay in ...

The Pierre Regional Airport is making the best of its federal subsidy with more passengers usage and competitive airfares: “More passengers are filling our flights in and out of here over the last ...

Attorney General Marty Jackley batted .500 for South Dakota this week in the one-party state’s war on the First Amendment. In granting Jackley’s en banc petition, the Eighth Circuit also vacated the ...

Farmers Union chief Doug Sombke continues to press for a fuel-tax holiday, now expanding his call from a 90-day break on diesel tax to a reduction of the state tax on diesel and gasoline from 28 cents ...

South Dakota rakes in some extra cash by allowing out-of-staters to license their cars in South Dakota and avoid their higher home-state fees. In 2024, Senator Randy Deibert (R-31/Spearfish) pushed ...

In a remarkable display of judicial independence, a Rhoden-appointed judge has thrown a spanner in the works of a Rhoden-anointed economic development project. On Thursday, Second Circuit Judge Ann ...