South Dakota Politics Information Directory

"Bloggers like South Dakota Politics have done a great job of exposing the incredibly biased reporting of the state's dominant newspaper, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader." Andrew Sullivan: "FIRST THE NYT: Now the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. ...

The House-Senate conference committee meets this morning to work on changing South Dakota's program that grants sales tax refunds and contractor-excise tax refunds to large business projects and agricultural processing projects. ...

Sunnis who largely boycotted previous elections voted in force, and an intense competition for Shiite votes drove up participation in Baghdad and the south, election observers said. After seven years of a war whose rationale is deeply ...

While Minnesota does not have the lowest unemployment rate in the country - that distinction belongs to neighboring North Dakota (at 4.2 percent) - the Gopher State has seen its unemployment rate improve from the 29th lowest in the ...

Deb Peters, R-Hartford, as the total generated by the annual House-Senate basketball game in donations for the South Dakota Kids Voting program. The House “won” under the … ahem… unusual rules involving money that are used for the game. ...

Louie Krogman scored a career-high 31 points and Roman Gentry added 24 to lead South Dakota to a 97-84 victory over Houston Baptist Saturday night. Steve Smith added 17 points and Jake Thomas 11 for the Coyotes. The win gives South Dakota (19-9, 10-1 ...

Jeremy Mixon scored 19 points and Nick Daniels had 18 to lead IPFW to a 71-66 victory over South Dakota State in the first round of the Summit League tournament. Deilvez Yearby had eight points and 10 rebounds for the Mastodons (16-14), the fifth ...

WASHBURN, N.D.—A Minnesota man has been sentenced in North Dakota to 15 years in prison for starting another man's van on fire while the man was inside. Fifty-three-year-old Joseph Carpenter was convicted of felony endangering by fire or explosion ...

Washington (CNN) -- Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- who has sounded increasingly optimistic that ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - South Dakota Sen. John Thune will be the featured speaker during the North Dakota Republican state convention later this month. State Republican chairman Gary Emineth says Thune will speak to North Dakota GOP convention ...

The lowest unemployment rates are still found in upper Plains states, with North Dakota's jobless rate of 4.2 percent the lowest in the nation. Nebraska and South Dakota had the next lowest rates, at 4.6 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in animal science and business from South Dakota State University. Experience: Operating the family ranch 30 miles east of Buffalo Gap since 1981. ing our needs from our wants. We have to decide what our state needs to ...

The South Dakota Legislature has passed a resolution calling for a "balanced approach for instruction in the public schools relating to global climate change." Republican State Representative Don Kopp, the main sponsor of the resolution, tells ...

BISMARCK, N.D.—More than $20 million in expenses for the defunct Big Stone II power plant may show up on ratepayers' electric bills, even though the project won't illuminate a single light bulb, state regulators say. In North Dakota, a state law ...

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