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Past articles by James:

South Dakota lawmakers pass nursing home funding, pipeline protest bills

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem closed out the main part of her first legislative session as governor with a major funding boost for nursing homes, groundbreaking anti-pipeline → Read More

Newspaper association praises Noem's transparency efforts

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Kristi Noem has said she'd work toward building the "most transparent administration South Dakota has ever seen," calling for a reporter shield law and bringing → Read More

South Dakota industrial hemp backers fail to overcome Kristi Noem veto

PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota House voted Tuesday to override the governor's veto of a hemp legalization bill but the Senate didn't get the two-thirds majority needed to follow → Read More

Lawmakers to pass state budget as end of session nears

PIERRE | South Dakota lawmakers this week are set to pass a state budget, debate bills to legalize industrial hemp and address the Legislature's commitment to scale back a 2016 → Read More

SD lawmakers to pass state budget as end of session nears

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota lawmakers this week are set to pass a state budget, debate bills to legalize industrial hemp and address the Legislature's commitment to scale back a → Read More

South Dakota passes law to discourage Keystone XL protests

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota is poised to approve laws aimed at potential protests against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, seeking to prevent disruptive demonstrations like those against the Dakota Access pipeline that cost neighboring North Dakota nearly $40 million and led to hundreds of arrests beginning in late 2016. → Read More

South Dakota passes bills to discourage Keystone XL rioting

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota is poised to approve laws aimed at potential protests against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, seeking to prevent disruptive demonstrations like those against the Dakota Access pipeline that cost neighboring North Dakota nearly $40 million and led to hundreds of arrests beginning in late 2016. South Dakota's Republican-dominated Legislature rushed two bills… → Read More

Noem offers bills aimed at possible Keystone XL protests

PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Monday that she's proposing a new framework for oil pipeline construction before building starts on the Keystone XL pipeline, introducing legislation that would require companies behind such projects to chip in on protest-related expenses and create a way to go after the money of those who fund destructive demonstrations. → Read More

Noem offers bills aimed at possible Keystone XL protests

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Monday that she's proposing a new framework for oil pipeline construction before building starts on the Keystone XL pipeline, introducing legislation → Read More

South Dakota Legislature to debate industrial hemp, guns, sports betting this week

PIERRE — South Dakota lawmakers plan to debate bills this week to allow industrial hemp cultivation, let people bring concealed handguns into the Capitol and set the state's official indigenous → Read More

South Dakota Legislature to debate industrial hemp, guns in the Capitol

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota lawmakers plan to debate bills this week to allow industrial hemp cultivation, let people bring concealed handguns into the Capitol and set the state's official → Read More

SD industrial hemp bill still 'gravely concerns' governor

PIERRE | South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Friday that a bill to legalize industrial hemp still "gravely concerns" her, but she stopped short of threatening to veto the proposal → Read More

South Dakota Senate panel passes hemp bill despite big pressure from Noem

PIERRE, S.D. — A South Dakota Senate panel approved a bill Thursday that would make it legal to grow industrial hemp, despite the governor’s assertion that the state isn’t ready → Read More

South Dakota House panel passes science bill despite critics from K-12

PIERRE | A bill that would let South Dakota teachers decide how much skepticism to inject into lessons on scientific topics such as climate change and the Big Bang passed → Read More

South Dakota lawmakers to talk presumptive probation, campus free speech

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota lawmakers plan to take up bills this week to end presumptive probation, promote "intellectual diversity" on college campuses and target an activities association policy for → Read More

South Dakota Senate panel OKs campus carry despite higher ed opposition

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota public universities and technical schools would be barred from restricting people's ability to carry guns on campus under a bill approved Tuesday by a state → Read More

Senate panel OKs campus carry despite higher ed opposition

PIERRE | South Dakota public universities and technical schools would be barred from restricting people's ability to carry guns on campus under a bill approved Tuesday by a state Senate → Read More

South Dakota House easily OKs industrial hemp bill despite Noem's call for delay

PIERRE, S.D. — State representatives overwhelmingly advanced legislation Monday to legalize industrial hemp in South Dakota, just days after Republican Gov. Kristi Noem asked lawmakers to shelve the efforts this → Read More

Indicted political operative appeared in unlikely places

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Paul Erickson, the boyfriend of admitted Russian covert agent Maria Butina accused this week of fraud, has turned up in the unlikeliest of places - from landing a top spot on Pat Buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign to representing a man involved in one of the most salacious trials of the 1990s. → Read More

Indicted political operative appeared in unlikely places

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Paul Erickson, the boyfriend of admitted Russian covert agent Maria Butina accused this week of fraud, has turned up in the unlikeliest of places - from landing a top spot on Pat Buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign to representing a man involved in one of the most salacious trials of the 1990s. From his youth in Vermillion, South Dakota, Erickson parlayed a network of… → Read More