Senator Betty Olson has her problems (curse the poor! curse the GF&P! curse Standard Time!), but she has her soft spot. The Republican from Prairie City is actually proposing something…
Month: January 2016
Here’s an odd rich-poor disconnect in certain legislators’ thinking. On Wednesday, the Senate Taxation Committee approved Senate Bill 53, a package of bank franchise tax reforms,…
South Dakota Republicans’ latest spiteful, uncompassionate, and unconstitutional welfare drug-testing bill is officially in the hopper. House Bill 1076, sponsored by right-wing poster gals Rep. Lynne DiSanto…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) leads a whole bunch of cranky conservatives into battle tomorrow with House Bill 1060, to repeal the South Dakota Board on…
Are the payday lenders now knocking at legislators’ doors? After last night’s odd encounter between a woman claiming to work for North American Title Loan…
Two Bills Aimed at Hartford: SB 64 Clarifies One Councilor One Vote; SB 65 Lets Auditor Block Recall
No sooner do I mention the council chaos in Hartford than two bills pop into the Legislative hopper hoping to clarify how city governments are supposed to…
I said last week that House Bill 1048, which would increase the number of video lottery machines per establish, raise bets and prizes, and let a more-empowered state Lottery Commission keep…
Ah, sweet anarchy…. Hartford offers Libertarians and other chaoticians a brief exercise in the disappearance of government. Double-voting city councilman Doyle Johnson resigned last week following controversy over…
I told them not to do it. The GOP spin blog told them not to do it. But twenty legislators have done it: they have chosen to cave to…
South Dakota Democratic Party Vice-Chair returns with another essay on the need for Democrats to stand up with simple truth against the Republicans’ ceaseless malarkey. Last fall he…