Nine Republican legislators from South Dakota traveled on taxpayer dollars in Fiscal Year 2017 to imbibe the corporate-fascist nectar of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange…
Month: October 2017
Senator Billie Sutton’s (D-21/Burke) proposals to make state e-mails public records and preserve fiscal documents for at least ten years will get further discussion from…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee appears to have mostly wasted our time on GEAR UP and Mid-Central this week. In the various press about…
South Dakota’s law school will be staying in Vermillion… sort of. At its final meeting today, USD’s Law School Task Force rejected the idea of…
Tim Bjorkman was just here in Aberdeen last weekend to march in the Northern State homecoming parade; he’s coming back Tuesday for lunch! The Democratic…
Yesterday I erroneously complained on Twitter that, with just two hours to go before the Initiative and Referendum Task Force met, the Legislative Research Council…
The state Department of Education has released its official calculation of South Dakota’s average teacher pay in the first year of the extra half-penny sales…
Senator Billie Sutton offers two draft bills for the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s consideration today (or maybe tomorrow) in Sioux Falls. The Democratic gubernatorial…
Once the Government Operations and Audit Committee gets done grilling anyone from Tri-Valley who dares show up to talk about its possibly illegal laptops-for-enrollment scheme,…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee has a lot more on its plate today (and probably tomorrow) at its meeting at Carnegie Town Hall in…