Hey, where’d the Partridge Amendment go? After all the work Senator Jeff Partridge (R-34/Rapid City) did to rewrite his automatic sales tax reduction into the…
Month: March 2019
The Legislature meets for just three days this week to reconcile bills passed in different forms by each chamber. Five bills are already in conference…
The latest bill report from the LRC lists five bills for which conference committees have been appointed to spend the last three full days of…
Seth Tupper notes that South Dakota is one of only nine states that have not legalized industrial hemp. Wyoming, one of the states where hemp…
Governor Kristi Noem did get her journalist shield law passed. On Friday Governor Noem signed House Bill 1074, which permits certain journalists in certain situations…
Who loves you, baby? Ann Tornberg and Larry Lucas, that’s who. If you’re present to cast a vote for state officers of the South Dakota…
As we survey the damage from the dwindling Legislative Session, we see that the Legislature defeated every resolution offered that would have placed entrusted the…
In other signs of Governor Kristi Noem letting her corporate handlers run the show while she tweets, the Governor’s website still has no information on…
One thing Governor Kristi Noem didn’t get yesterday was her civics test. Wrangling until the last day, the Senate finally killed House Bill 1066 on a…
Governor Kristi Noem issues this set of lies in celebration of the rush passage of Senate Bill 189 and Senate Bill 190, her fascist fake-emergency…