University students were hoping the Legislature could make a tuition freeze a priority. Oh, silly kids: A joint legislative committee killed a bill Thursday that would’ve…
Month: March 2015
A new Rockefeller/Pew report finds that states are having a harder time getting their revenue projections right: The last three recessions have boggled state revenue predictions, as have…
I was ready to give my Representative Dan Kaiser (R-3/Aberdeen) a hard time for voting against Senate Bill 53, the 2% increase in K-12 funding.…
The South Dakota Legislature threw six legislators into a room to see if they could fix Senate Bill 140, the last-ditch attempt of House Republicans to repeal the South Dakota…
Get ready for two hectic days in Pierre. As of 8:30 Central this morning, the Legislature has appointed thirteen conference committees to reconcile differences between…
To keep legislators and constituents from noticing that they replaced the 10% increase in license plate fees to 20%, House State Affairs Monday amended Senate…
The state medical board adopted new conflict-of-interest rules Wednesday. Jonathan Ellis reports that members of the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners will be expected to recuse…
Apparently Concerned Women for America placed the following propaganda on Senate desks today: Senate Bill 140 is the hoghouse vehicle that Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton)…
The hoghouse fun continues. Senate Bill 176 was supposed to fund the development of online educational resources. In its original form, the Department of Education would have…
Independent Kurt Evans is unhappy, and rightly so. The only declared candidate for the U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in 2016 has watched Senate Bill 69 morph…