Lee Strubinger
Reporter/ProducerLee Strubinger is SDPB’s Rapid City-based politics and public policy reporter. Lee is a two-time national Edward R. Murrow Award winning reporter. He holds a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.
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From the governor’s office to party caucuses in each chamber—everyone under the copper dome in Pierre wants to tackle the rise in owner-occupied property taxes. -
The prime sponsor of a bill to prohibit state funding go to the Huron Public School has withdrawn the legislative effort. -
Gov. Larry Rhoden is appointing Sioux Falls Republican Jack Kolbeck to fill an open House seat in District 13. -
Backers say it will protect consumers from certain investment activities, but critics say those protections already exist and would put the stability of the state’s capital market at risk. -
A House education panel is recommending a budget committee not cut the state library budget. The idea was first proposed in December by former-Governor Kristi Noem, who is now Secretary of Homeland Security. -
South Dakota is the only state in the county with a felony level charge for ingestion of a controlled substance. A new bill reduces that charge to a misdemeanor for the first two offenses in 10 years. -
A South Dakota legislative committee is punting on a bill that provides free school breakfast and lunch for low-income students. But the idea is not dead. -
Tony Venhuizen is officially lieutenant governor for the state of South Dakota. The Sioux Falls Republican was officially sworn in Thursday afternoon. -
With Gov. Larry Rhoden’s appointment of a state lawmaker as the new lieutenant governor — that leaves a key vacancy on the committee that sets the state budget. -
A Senate Select Committee is recommending approval of Gov. Larry Rhoden’s nominee for lieutenant governor, Tony Venhuizen.
