Governor Kristi Noem’s lawyers went to court to fight Amendment A, South Dakota’s impending marijuana constitutionalization. On one key point, the Attorney General’s office, which…
Month: January 2021
Governor Kristi Noem’s attack on Representative Taffy Howard over Howard’s open-records legislation reminds me of another instance where Noem’s brittleness and arrogance drew her into another…
Law and order? Nah—Representative Tom Pischke wants killers to do less time. House Bill 1185 would knock first-degree manslaughter down from a Class C felony…
Representative Marli Wiese (R-8/Madison) is a coward, but at least she likes brownies. Rep. Wiese gives us House Bill 1121, which would deregulate the homemade-food market.…
Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) would introduce a little more certainty into the timeline for printing ballots and for challenging the candidates and questions that may…
Governor Kristi Noem likes to spin criticism against her as a sign that she’s popular and right (kinda like saying Mrs. McGregor’s baking Peter Rabbit’s dad…
Senator Michael Diedrich (R-34/Rapid City) proposes the first initiative-related bill of the 2021 Session I’ve seen that doesn’t attack the initiative process. Senate Bill 123 proposes to add…
Rookie Representative and Libertarian going along to get along with Republicans Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) offers a bill which makes me think I finally get a chance…
In a seemingly sensible response to the pandemic, rookie Representative Mike Weisgram (R-24/Fort Pierre) proposes House Bill 1090, which would allow boards of non-profit corporations…
In more feckless posing, Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) proposes the absolutely useless House Bill 1093, which purports to revise the limitations on municipal governments’…