Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) throws the first belch of the radical right-wing caucus into the hopper with his fourth attempt to wedge his anti-science agenda into science…
Month: January 2017
Governor Dennis Daugaard reached for an awkward analogy yesterday to justify Republican legislators’ impending attack on our right to put initiatives and referenda on the ballot:…
Governor Dennis Daugaard called on the Legislature yesterday to repeal and replace Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act that voters approved in November. They have…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has fulfilled her promise to bring campaign finance reform measures to replace the voter-approved Initiated Measure 22. Yesterday the Secretary delivered two bills: Senate…
Governor Dennis Daugaard just finished his penultimate (Lori Walsh used that word—bless you, dear lady!) State of the State Address to the 2017 Legislature. The three biggest…
Funny things catch my attention in the Legislative hopper. Senate Bill 46, for instance, revises provisions relating to the state geologist. Section 1 makes minor language revisions.…
Rep. Tim Goodwin (R-30/Rapid City), in a recorded interview with Lori Walsh on SDPB Radio this noon, said that voters didn’t know what they were…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says all that needs to be said about planned Legislative efforts to fuss about where transgender students go potty—don’t do it: It is a…
The best thing I heard Rick Weiland say at yesterday’s Brown County Democratic Forum is that his ballot measure organization, TakeItBack.org, is ready to refer…
Even South Dakota regulators want less regulation. The Department of Transportation has proposed Senate Bill 22, a lovely one-sentence measure that exempts small unmanned aircraft (drones!)…