South Dakota just got approved to stop tracking and reporting on some of our federal education dollars. Here's what that means for the 3,000+ English language learners in the Sioux Falls School District, the after-school waitlists across District 9, and why I think "trust us" isn't good enough.

A doorstep conversation about data centers helped me put words to something I'd been circling for months: the real dividing line isn't how much regulation we have — it's who it protects, and what it protects them from.

$32 million of South Dakota's new surplus came from an agency that didn't spend money meant to help people. That's not fiscal discipline — it's a missed assignment.

Remember the (now discontinued) Monopoly Chance card that said "Pay Poor Tax"? South Dakota just passed the real-life version — and called it the largest property tax cut in state history.

Hundreds of foreign-trained physicians completed their U.S. residencies, committed to serving rural and underserved communities for three years, and were ready to show up and do the work. Now a federal paperwork backlog and a $100,000 visa fee are sending them home — or north to Canada. This isn't just a rural hospital problem. It's ours too.

Sec. McMahon's block grant pitch sounds reasonable. The history says otherwise.

Not only are we not offering state-funded preschool — our lawmakers have even declined to study whether we should.

There came a time when I couldn't stand on the sidelines any longer. Our administrations in both Pierre and D.C. have become too extreme. Besides that — it's different now. And I'll tell you why.