It’s clearly no longer open season on out-of-state influence in South Dakota, at least not when out-of-staters are supporting the preferred hobbies of our elected…
Month: January 2020
Bring back bad legislators, bring back bad ideas…. Jon Hansen left the Legislature in 2013 to go to law school. Since he’s come back to…
South Dakota’s potty panickers have treated birth certificates as sacrosanct indicators of their God‘s anti-transgender will. But now a few Republicans are declaring birth certificates…
Our victory in SD Voice v. Noem II (and that’s not the editorial we—the judge’s ruling in my favor was a win for all South…
Four of the five sponsors of House Bill 1092, to extend immunity to off-road-vehicle rental outfits for owies their customers get, are also sponsoring House…
Medical procedures and off-road vehicles both have inherent risks. Medical procedures have all sorts of safeguards, including, most importantly, medical professionals who apply years of…
HB 1093 Proposes $100M Annual Cleanup Fee on Oil Pipelines; Two Republican Tribal Reps Don’t Sign On
With the South Dakota Water Management Board’s approval last week of TransCanada/TC Energy’s applications to use lots of water to build the Keystone XL pipeline,…
Pick your headline: Legislators Try Again to Offer Counties Additional Revenue Stream “No New Taxes” RINOs Join Socialists in Supporting New County Tax Bipartisan Coalition…
Is there something about Daylight Saving Time that is particularly hard on the elder stateswomen of the South Dakota Legislature? Betty Olson tried mightily four…
In real problem-solving, the Appropriations Committee offers Senate Bill 72, which would establish a much-needed need-based scholarship for South Dakota’s college students. The Dakota Promise…