Senate Bill 151 shows how differently two legislative chambers can view a issue. This anti-corruption measure, creating new provisions for reporting and investigating public corruption, breezed…
Month: March 2017
Thanks to Amendment R and Senate Bill 65, the vo-techs can finally get local school boards out of their hair, if they want. Thanks to House Bill…
Well, I screwed that story up. Yesterday I reported, based on a hasty reading of Senate Bill 35 that the conference committee had stripped the…
The SDGOP spin blog and I agree that the gun radicals who lobby under the banner “South Dakota Gun Owners” go too far with their propaganda flyers…
At least Congresswoman Kristi Noem and her fellow Trumpublicans are going big on their upward wealth distribution. Instead of nickel-and-diming us to death, they’re 1,700-dollaring us to…
The end of Session means today is the last day Pierre residents can witness the awesome spectacle of Senator Stace Nelson lumbering down the street…
Speaker Paul Ryan is catching heck for saying yesterday that the main problem with the Affordable Care Act is that it relies on the basic…
Senator Stace Nelson and Representative Lynne DiSanto found time yesterday to troop 2,000-some letters from gun owners into the Governor’s office to urge him to…
Next year’s funding for teacher pay, state employee raises, and other items remains in limbo on the last regular day of the Legislative Session (while legislators have spent…
Get your tickets now for McGovern Day, the South Dakota Democrats annual fundraising dinner, in Sioux Falls. This year’s dinner speaker is our new national…