Some legislators fight for the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden. Representative Tom Pischke fights for deadbeat dads and vanity license plate buyers. The Dell…
Month: February 2018
In 2016, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs was able to plow through eight ballot question petitions by February 4. This year, Secretary Krebs has finished reviewing…
Good policy does occasionally make it through the South Dakota Legislature. House Agriculture and Natural Resources took its turn this morning at House Bill 1119, an…
Oh look! New revenue targets: The top sheet is the new official guess of how much general fund revenue South Dakota will take in this…
I caught the tail end of a really cool Legislative trick in House Taxation this morning. One of the wiliest coyotes in the House, Republican…
The debate that consumed the largest chunk of the House’s time yesterday afternoon was over House Bill 1120, which would require all public school districts…
While I was in Senate Taxation watching business and Republicans maintain their resistance to repealing the food tax, House Judiciary was packed with potty-panickers jumping…
The South Dakota Republican Party spin blog, run by an employee of the party chair, tried this morning to make it sound like Rep. Drew…
I rarely agree with Rep. Isaac Latterell. But he has made at least one good choice this Session: growing out his beard! The guy on…
House Bill 1268 is a yummy bill strictly for Legislature nerds (Legi-nerds? Rotunda-heads?). Currently, legislators may prefile bills with the Legislative Research Council no earlier…