Yesterday I noted the strange rejection of House Bill 1032, a mostly innocuous update to the state’s child support calculation table, a clarification of the state’s minimum…
Month: January 2017
22 months ago, Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions grilled Sally Quillian Yates, President Barack Hussein Obama’s nominee for deputy attorney general. Senator Sessions exhorted nominee Yates…
I love a good debate with Senator Jim Bolin. But I can’t fight him on Senate Bill 85, his effort to provide parents and students with…
Governing notices the South Dakota Legislature’s attack on people power (see all the bills here), particularly the effort to repeal Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, with…
The latest expression of the South Dakota Legislature’s preference of fear and bigotry over data gets a committee hearing this morning. Senate Bill 115, the recycled anti-transgender potty bill,…
Senator John Thune says Trump screwed up, a little, with his executive order on immigration: “The way in which this particular executive order was rolled out has…
Dang it! I clear my calendar for the week starting February 7, and what do I get? This media advisory from the Attorney General’s office:…
The Commission on Child Support proposed House Bill 1032 as its regular, federally expected update of child support guidelines. The commission meets every four years; proponents…
…and Other HB 1069 Notes The Legislature’s effort to overturn the will of the people and repeal the Anti-Corruption Act is largely an expression of Republican…
An eager reader notes that tribes in North Dakota face conflict over Il Duce’s fossil-fuel impulses. In one corner, we have Standing Rock Sioux tribal…