South Dakota

With the help of Republican lawmakers, South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson has brought a handful of election-related bills to the 2024 legislative session, all to the ire of her campaign supporters. At her request, lawmakers have…

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says “the anxiety driving MAGA isn’t driven by reality” but “dystopian visions unrelated to real experience.” As proof, he points to Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, “a MAGA hard-liner” (who…

A pair of bipartisan senators proposed legislation last week to keep lab-grown meat out of the school cafeteria. On Friday, Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced the School Lunch Integrity Act of 2024 prohibiting…

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin temporarily foiled abortion activists this week when he rejected their attempt to put a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow abortion through all nine months of pregnancy on the 2024…

More than 100 South Dakota landowners are faced with eminent domain lawsuits as a major carbon capture company constructs a more than 2,000-mile pipeline spanning the upper midwestern plains. The pipeline is a project by Summit Carbon…

I knew media bias runs rampant across our nation, but it runs equally as biased in my home state of South Dakota. South Dakota Searchlight published a recent hit piece by business reporter Makenzie Huber titled, “Physicians feel ‘trapped’…

South Dakota scored a major win for election integrity on Tuesday by becoming the first state in 2023 to ban ranked-choice voting (RCV) in elections, with Idaho potentially following suit. On Tuesday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed SB…

South Dakota and Montana have joined a growing number of states working toward banning the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV) in elections. On Wednesday, the South Dakota House of Representatives passed SB 55, which stipulates that the…

It’s curious that in one of the reddest states in the nation, which boasts both a Republican governor and a whopping 90 percent GOP majority legislature, the child-mutilation business would be allowed not only to exist but to flourish. But…

South Dakota State University hosted a “kid-friendly” drag show last month, on state property and in a taxpayer-funded building. More than a month later, the South Dakota Board of Regents, the governing body of the public university whose…