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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South Dakota House lawmakers are gridlocked over constructing a men’s prison near Sioux Falls. -
The bill limits schools, counties and municipalities from raising taxes by 2.5 percent or inflation—whichever is less. Current law is three percent. -
South Dakota House lawmakers are removing defense protections for librarians and educational institutions if obscene material ends up in the hands of minors. -
The fate of a constructing a new men’s prison near Sioux Falls faces its biggest vote yet. The South Dakota House is set to vote on authorizing the project Friday afternoon. -
The Senate appropriations committee is advancing an idea that could take a large amount of unique dollars the state holds onto and turn it into revenue. -
A Senate panel is advancing a House proposal to require individuals provide identification to access pornographic material online. It’s an idea debated by state lawmakers since legislative session last year. -
South Dakota House lawmakers are rejecting an effort to prohibit public schools from having lobbyists represent them in the state Capitol. -
Gov. Larry Rhoden and a working group of lawmakers are unveiling their property tax relief proposal. It's Senate Bill 216. -
State legislative budget analysts are adopting revenue targets that Gov. Larry Rhoden describes as a rounding error to December’s proposed budget.
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The proposed Lincoln County Corrections center will cost the state no more than $825 million. But that cost doesn’t include construction of the road to get to the prison—the location which is in the middle of a cornfield 20 miles from the existing prison.
