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Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment
GOVERNOR-SPECIAL SESSION Special legislative session scheduled for June 22 PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Governor Dennis Daugaard (DOO'-gahrd) says he will call the South Dakota Legislature into a special session on June 22nd to deal with cost overruns in...Tags: Tom Daschle, Tim Johnson, Government, Punishment, Disasters and Accidents
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Daugaard looking for new student regent
South Dakota’s early citizens thought higher education to be so important that they amended the state constitution in 1896 to establish the Board of Regents One of the board’s nine seats is reserved for a state university student. The...Tags: Students, Executive Branch, Government, Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice
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Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Former Governor Mike Rounds' Senate campaign has hired a Republican political consultant known for his role in a prior Senate race in South Dakota. Dick Wadhams managed John Thune's campaign to defeat Democrat Tom Daschle in...Tags: Tom Daschle, Executive Branch, Government, Politics, Memorial Day
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Livestock branding program expanding digital system
Using a hot brand to permanently mark cattle and horses remains the legal proof of ownership in western South Dakota. But one piece of that Old West tradition is changing in the digital age. State Brand Board inspectors who work the St. Onge...Tags: Marketing, Theft
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Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota,...
Tags: Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Same-Sex Marriage, Tom Daschle, Democratic Party, Tim Johnson
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UPDATED: South Dakota's Stephanie Herseth Sandlin will not run for U.S. Senate seat
Former South Dakota U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said Monday she will not seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson, removing herself from a contest expected to play a key role in determining which party controls the...Tags: Tom Daschle, Lawyers, U.S. Congress, Democratic Party, Government
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Herseth Sandlin rules out run for Senate
PIERRE, S.D. - Former South Dakota U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin says she will not seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson. Herseth Sandlin announced her decision on her Facebook page Monday morning and confirmed it to...
Tags: Kristi Noem, U.S. Congress, Tim Johnson, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Politics
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Former Daschle staffer Rick Weiland to run for Senate
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A former staffer for former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has announced that he'll seek the Democratic nomination for the seat being vacated by Sen. Tim Johnson. Rick Weiland tells the Argus Leader that he's running for things in which he...
Tags: Tom Daschle, Tim Johnson, Bill Clinton, Elections, Politics
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Notebook: No challengers yet for Rounds
We are now a year from the June 3, 2014, primary elections in South Dakota. That is significant because South Dakota voters will choose a new U.S. senator next year. So far voters don’t have a choice. The only declared candidate is Republican...Tags: U.S. Congress, Democratic Party, Political Candidates, Government, Tim Johnson
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Rounds prepares for U.S. Senate run
Last year Mike Rounds, former governor of South Dakota, said that he had no plans to run for U.S. Senate — but a year watching the dysfunction in the federal government, plus a little prodding from his friends, made him change his mind, Rounds said....
Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, Elections
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CAPITOL NOTEBOOK: Path on schools, taxes firmly set by GOP
PIERRE — South Dakota voters made four key decisions in the 18 months after the death of Gov. George S. Mickelson in the 1993 plane crash. Those decisions set the course for the next 20 years and brought us to where the state government is today....Tags: Tim Johnson, Government, Primaries, Elections, Taxation
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Daugaard will keep promise against increasing fuel taxes
PIERRE — It’s been 14 years since the last ones passed, but don’t expect increases in South Dakota’s motor-fuels taxes during the 20 months remaining of Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s first term. That’s what a member of the...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Politics, Dennis Daugaard, Regional Authority
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