Six days before opening the 2022 Session, the South Dakota Legislature has 43 bills in the hopper. 26 of them deal with marijuana. (So much…
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It’s hard to get reporters to cover the South Dakota Legislature and state government in general. The geographic isolation of Pierre, where the Legislature meets…
I failed twice to remove part-time Aberdeen resident and do-nothing Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) from the South Dakota Legislature. Now it appears that, if he…
House Impeachment Cmte Subpoenas DPS Sec. Price, Four Investigators, Numerous Documents on Ravnsborg
The impeachment Special Session will run into the regular 2022 Session of the South Dakota Legislature. After three more hours of secret discussions than expected,…
Last week the Food and Drug Administration made permanent a pandemic-era change that allows women to receive abortion drug mifepristone by mail. This easing of…
Senator Tim Johns (R-31/Lead) won’t have to worry about Ron Moeller running “Don’t Send Drunk Drivers to Pierre” ads during the primary. The Senator and…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) has been a willing participant in the Republican war on initiatives. In 2016, he led the SDGOP campaign against Amendment V,…
Representative Mark Willadsen (R-11/Sioux Falls) will need to change the name of his Legislative campaign committee, “Mark Willadsen for SD House of Representatives Dist. 11.”…
Ron Moeller is a carpetbagging former CIA paramilitary operations officer now bunkered in Lead and running as a Republican for District 31 Senate. Hmm… I…