Five years ago, Congresswoman Kristi Noem tried to protect the use of lead shot and sinkers on federal lands. Heck, if she really wanted to achieve…
Month: March 2017
The South Dakota Legislature has failed another moral test. This afternoon the House gave final approval* to Senate Bill 149, an overly broad “Sharia for Jesus” wedge…
Among the items the House will take up today before leaving for its final crackerbarrel weekend is Senate Bill 80, a nice little measure regulating drones. Prime…
House Bill 1185 was originally designed to deal with one unique problem in one place. As prime sponsor Representative Lee Qualm explained to House Local Government…
Senate State Affairs backed away from declaring Lutheran Social Services unfit to help refugees yesterday. After hearing from seven proponents and seventeen opponents on Senate Concurrent…
Hopefully we can stay out of the weeds on this one. —Rep. Dan Ahlers, opening debate on SB 154, 2017.03.01 I don’t think it was Representative Ahlers’s…
The Senate showed its wisdom yesterday—and again, Al Novstrup showed his fecklessness as Majority Whip—by defeating House Bill 1130, the attempt by Novstrup and prime…
In another blow to people power, the House voted 53–14 Monday to pass Senate Bill 59. This attack on our ability to make laws through initiative moves the…
A couple weeks ago, Senator Stace Nelson [R-19/Fulton] and eleven Legislative colleagues raised a stink about carcass bills and vote-trading. In a Valentine’s Day letter to Marty Jackley, Nelson…
Last week, U.S. Representative Kristi Noem thought she’d take a swipe at her primary opponent for Governor, Attorney General Marty Jackley, by writing a letter…