Around the house, I like to say my wife does biology; I do physics. I’ll thus have to ask her about Senate Bill 75, a…
Month: January 2018
The South Dakota Senate is aiming to be 100% more productive than the House today. Today’s Senate calendar has eight bills compared to the House’s four.…
Score one for the South Dakota Democratic Party. Their attack on Marty Jackley’s touring the state to campaign on office time may have fallen flat…
The South Dakota House of Representatives may hold its first real votes this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. CST, when it convenes to hear four bills.…
We all know Governor Daugaard and the rest of the state’s leaders are hoping to save our budget by persuading the Supreme Court to reverse…
Seth Tupper does the homework on the Jackley travel budget question and finds the Democrats and Kristi Noem are probably wrong to imply that Marty…
The Department of Revenue’s 2017 Annual Report includes this map showing that South Dakota has the lowest tax burden in the septa-state region: Yet last…
Speaking of risks to public health and safety, Senator Neal Tapio (R-5/Watertown nearly blew a gasket this week when an attendee at the ELCA-sponsored Interfaith…
Quick statistical note, for those of you setting policy priorities based on actual data (from 2007 through 2016): Number of South Dakotans killed by opioid…
The open case file for TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline oil spill now includes a January 11 e-mail update from Brian Walsh of the Department of Environment…