Alas, the Legislature is not listening to constitutional or practical conservative sense on House Bill 1007. The hoghoused bill, which now simply reads, “No initiated…
Month: February 2018
Revise my count downward! Of fourteen constitutional amendments floated by the 2018 Legislature, only three remain alive: Bill Title Cmte1 Floor1 Cmte2 Floor2 HJR 1001 Raise…
The Legislature may be working up the courage to vote for its own long-delayed pay raise. On Monday, with little discussion, Senate State Affairs tabled…
In another bit of remarkable good news from Pierre, the Senate yesterday listened to people who care about higher education and killed House Bill 1199,…
“In the spirit of being as transparent as possible on this matter,” Speaker G. Mark Mickelson today released the silent House chamber security video that…
Whoo-hoo! Patrick Lalley still thinks I’m worth having on the air! In today’s blogging on the radio (our fifteen-minute segment starts at 35:00), Lalley and I…
Roxanne Weber of Pierre declares herself a Republican and challenges incumbents Mary Duvall and Tim Rounds for their House seats. Or does she? Consider what…
South Dakota has a stealth voucher program, allowing fatcat insurers and anti-public-school legislators to skirt the Establishment Clause and launder public dollars to subsidize religious schools.…
The bicameral system proved its worth yesterday, as House State Affairs killed a goofy Second Amendment wedge measure that mostly coasted through the Senate. Senator…
Judge turned Democratic candidate for U.S. House Tim Bjorkman wants to talk gun policy. Noting that gun violence since 1970 has killed more Americans than…