House Bill 1140, the latest move in Rep. G. Mark Mickelson’s ongoing effort to make it easier to build giant concentrated animal feeding operations in South…
Month: February 2016
Don’t expect me to celebrate the Senate’s mild watering dow of the fetal-pain abortion ban yesterday. Senate Bill 72 is still a bad bill, based on bad science, and…
Looking for you chance to clean up corruption in South Dakota? Apply now to be the next director of the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative in Platte!…
I don’t get Lee Schoenbeck’s mid-Session resignation from the South Dakota House of Representatives. The Watertown Republican crafts an amendment (based on his early forward thinking…
Throughout my blogging, I have consistently turned to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center’s posting of cost-of-living data from the Council for Community and Economic…
I explained last month what bad law and science Senator Jeff Monroe is peddling with his Senate Bill 72, the ban on abortions after the twentieth week…
The Senate and House have two days to clear the decks of all of their own bills. The Senate has thirteen Senate bills on today’s calendar alone,…
I wasn’t just dreaming. Consistent with things his administration made when it rolled out the silly “We’re Not Mars” campaign, Governor Dennis Daugaard told the Pierre Chamber of…
On its second try, the South Dakota House today approved House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s funding mechanism for increasing teacher pay. The vote was 47–21,…
In political baseball, Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s support for the Blue Ribbon plan to raise South Dakota teacher pay has made him the new Stace Nelson of the Legislature:…