House Bill 1061 poses a due-process quandary for conservatives. Representative Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) offers this measure to allow victims of sexual assault to ask the…
Month: January 2019
An eager reader asks how much each day of Legislative shenanigans costs us. I’m glad you asked! There appear to be four main budget lines…
District 3 legislators are having a hard time with transparency this Session. Not only are Senator Al Novstrup, Representative Drew Dennert, and rookie Representative Carl…
We all know that “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency” is to conduct government business via a private e-mail server. One of…
Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) takes his trans-panic Senate Bill 49 to the Senate Education Committee this morning at 7:45. It is the only bill on this…
To make Senator Stace Nelson’s forced sonogram bill go down more easily (to the 41st day), Senate Health and Human Affairs has rushed Governor Kristi…
South Dakota Right to Life opposes forcing women who are seeking abortions to undergo sonograms and listen to the faked sounds of the fetal heart…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) finally gets an idea—and, predictably, it’s a tax increase. But by no means is Senator Novstrup undermining Governor Kristi Noem’s promise…
On January 10, I published a letter from convicted murderer Shane Bell describing the beginning of a typical day in the Jameson Annex of South…
When Lee Schonebeck talks, people should listen…. It only took Representative Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) two weeks at the Speaker’s podium to get himself sued,…