In 2024, opponents of carbon-capture pipelines referred a law favoring pipeline companies over property owners to a public vote and rode public outrage against the…
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The Legislature has significantly scaled back Senate Bill 3, Senator Michael Rohl’s (R-1/Aberdeen) proposal to prohibit local governments from requiring permits for various home renovations.…
House State Affairs may have taken the prohibition on selling abortion-related products out of House Bill 1257, but the anti-abortion fanatics are pushing a ban…
Now that the Trump Court has allowed South Dakota to ban pretty much all abortions, the abortion lobby has had a pretty dull 2026 Legislative…
Rhoden Map Shows Home Tax Savings Less Than 25% in Most Counties, Doesn’t Calculate Higher Sales Tax
I’ve estimated that Senate Bill 96, Governor Larry Rhoden’s half-hearted plan to allow counties to charge a 0.5% sales tax to lower property taxes, would…
Madhu Gottumukkala is one of the South Dakota cronies Kristi Noem dragged along with her to the Department of Homeland Security: Gottumukkala had no prior…
Predictably, do-nothing Representative Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) failed to push Senator Sue Peterson’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) Senate Bill 223 through the House Thursday. While I am pleased…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) wanted to take one small bite at corruption in Pierre. On Monday, two thirds of his House colleagues said they…
I’ve noted how even the opponents of Senate Joint Resolution 508, the Senate’s proposed ballot question to strike from the South Dakota Constitution the Lieutenant…
“How seriously do you take your job?” When I wake up too sick to work (I rarely do—healthy living!), one of my first thoughts is,…