About a half hour into this afternoon’s House session, Representatives Elizabeth May and Dan Kaiser moved to disband the Select Committee that they moved to…
Month: February 2018
Among the bills crushed in Capitol crossover last week was House Bill 1309, Rep. Elizabeth May’s crafty plan to subject the $1.11 billion we give up…
While legislation (SB 58) amending our tax increment finance laws languishes in the House, Governor Dennis Daugaard will be zooming out Tuesday to celebrate South…
What’s wrong with young men? Why are they so violent (but remember: our nation is enjoying a long-term decline in violent crime that has revitalized urban…
In Senate State Affairs Wednesday, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) showed both his racism and his lack of understanding of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by…
Rep. Lynne DiSanto (R-35/Rapid City) goes to crackerbarrel to argue against legal restrictions on guns… and makes an argument for legal restrictions on guns: Representative…
House Bill 1286, as amended Friday by Rep. Spencer Hawley (D-7/Brookings), fouls the bill’s original intent of satisfying the demands of the Libertarian/Constitutionist lawsuit that…
Last month I noted that Donald Trump was making empty promises on expanding rural Americans’ access to broadband Internet. His new infrastructure proposal proves my…
We have no idea what Rep. David Johnson (R-33) said to his Rapid City neighbor Rep. Lynne DiSanto (R-35) on the House floor Wednesday that…
Lori Stacey’s right: the House messed up House Bill 1286 yesterday. What started as Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s emergency bill to moot the ballot…