Our schizophrenic Legislature is taking local control away from CAFO permitting and other zoning issues, but it is expanding local control over salaries for public…
Month: March 2020
Senator John Wiik takes a moment to claim that his Senate Bill 54, the plastic-ban ban, will save us from coronavirus: Governor Noem held a…
In their ongoing commitment to deterring low-income students from seeking a college education and developing the critical thinking skills that would lead them to critique…
The Legislature had before it five bills to address the conflict between the rural electric cooperatives and the municipal utilities who can unilaterally seize the…
Science says that South Dakota is putting pregnant women and infants at greater risk of death by refusing to expand Medicaid. The 2020 Legislature has…
With the House’s close vote Tuesday to place sports betting in Deadwood on the November ballot, we now have three ballot measures to spice up…
Rosier budget projections have apparently fizzled; Majority Leader Lee Qualm is saying we may be back to stiffing teachers and state employees: Republicans who control…
Senate Bill 180, the revised registry and badging scheme for paid ballot question petition circulators, passed House Local Government on Tuesday with one significant amendment.…
I’m listening to Lori Walsh on SDPB this lunch hour pish-toshing criticism of Governor Kristi Noem’s nepotistic favors to her daughters as misogyny. As usual,…