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I come from a long line of veterans, a proud heritage that reaches back to the Revolutionary War. My great-great-great-grandfather came to America and served as an aide to General Lafayette. My grandfather served in World War I, and my father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge. My dads unit…

The genesis of the massacre began with a dance. During the throes of a continuing drought on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1890, the Lakota people living there were also contending with severely reduced rations from the U.S. government as it tried to pressure Indigenous residents into yielding valuable reservation land. These punitive restrictions caused…

Senate Democrats have kept the government shut down for over a month now. Republicans have given them more than a dozen opportunities to reopen the government with a clean funding extension, but, every time, Democrats have blocked it and forced hardworking Americans to continue suffering. How much longer are Democrats going to keep the government…

A recent legislative hearing left people involved in the states medical marijuana businesses paranoid, and it wasnt because they had been sampling their own products. A meeting of the Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee turned into an assault on the program that the states voters approved in 2020 and the state implemented in 2022. The roster…

South Dakotas greatest asset is our people, and some of our greatest attributes are grit and a tremendous work ethic. We work hard to take care of ourselves and our families, and we also work hard to serve those who cant take care of themselves. As the federal shutdown lingers, it is causing havoc to…

Neither the invective-filled disparagement from White House officials, nor the vulgar video posted by President Donald Trump on Oct. 18, in which he hailed himself wearing a crown and piloting a jet fighter plane while dropping excrement on Americans who participated in the nationwide, No Kings protests, deterred the seven million protesters in some 3,000…

Political gridlock in Washington has shut down the government and left South Dakotas farmers, ranchers and conservationists stranded. Too many in Washington are ignoring the urgent need for a Farm Bill that improves and funds U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation programs, like the Conservation Reserve Program. Everyone saw the government shut its doors at midnight…

For nearly a month, Senate Democrats have kept the government shut down and held government funding hostage to their partisan demands. Their motivation is pure politics, but their shutdown is having very real consequences, including in South Dakota. Republicans are continuing our efforts to reopen the government. But given Democrats determination to prolong the shutdown,…

The right project in the right place at the right time. Thats how we do economic development in South Dakota. More often than not, that means focusing on opportunities for existing South Dakota businesses to grow and expand whether that be a new product, a new market, or just doing what they do well on…

President Donald Trumps usurpation of the congressional spending power, a seismic blow to the foundational power of the legislature and another in his endless string of constitutional violations, warranted, in the minds of the nations founders, an impeachable offense for its deadly assault on the republic and its chief weapon to control an arbitrary executive.…