If Senator Jeff Monroe gets to recycle his creationism-in-disguise bills, then I get to recycle blog posts. The District 24 Senator from Pierre has brought…
Month: January 2020
Team Noem is doing a poor job of whipping hemp legislation to passage. She said she wanted to wrap up the hemp issue in the…
Senator Ryan Maher (R-28/Isabel) brings us a bill about nothing. Literally. Void, Emptiness. Absence of substance. I’m not picking on Senator Maher. I’m just describing…
The Legislature is offering South Dakota’s trust lawyers another prop to their participation in global feudalism. Senate Bill 65 is this year’s venture into amendments…
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) has made opposition to out-of-state influence on South Dakota politics a hallmark of his second full term in the Legislature.…
Senator Ryan Maher’s plan to consolidate administration at Black Hills State University and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is online! The Legislative…
If you read the blog regularly, you’ll understand if I am keenly attentive to any measure that affects the ability of citizens to use petitions…
The Legislative Research Council is catching heck from all sides over the user-unfriendly features of its website updates. But true to LRC director Jason Hancock’s…
French President Emmanuel Macron apparently thinks South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s focus on attracting businesses is good leadership. He’s making his own “Open for Business”…
Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) rushes to fill the gap left by our lazy Attorney General on tobacco enforcement. Rep. Perry brings House Bill 1063 to…