Speaking of trampling on local control, Governor Kristi Noem plans to extend her war against local zoning authority to neuter municipal governments’ ability to manage…
Month: January 2021
That Dakota Dunes flag bill whose title cropped up briefly on the LRC website last month has officially emerged as Senate Bill 81, Senator Jim Bolin’s…
Secretary of State Steve Barnett’s renewed push for online voter registration went nowhere fast last week. Senate State Affairs didn’t just kill Senate Bill 24; they…
Aberdeen continues to report surprisingly good sales tax numbers… but amid the bed-and-breakfast tax numbers lies an ugly correlation to the coronavirus pandemic: Aberdeen’s increase…
Senator Lee Schoenbeck and rookie Representative Will Mortenson join this year’s cycle of the Republican war on people power with Senate Bill 86, which appears…
After two weeks of work, and with two weeks left to introduce new bills in regular order, the Legislature has thrown 179 bills in the…
You know what’s funny? Kristi Noem complaining about elected officials not returning her calls: Gov. Noem on Thursday revealed she hasn’t heard from prosecutors investigating…
For the biggest, meanest, most dangerous attack on initiative in South Dakota, turn to Representative Fred Deutsch’s House Bill 1054, which would price grassroots, volunteer…
Get ready for controversy: legal eagle and Senate President Pro-Tem Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is lawyering into the whitecaps of South Dakota’s nonmeandered waters issue! In…
As a small state with a healthcare oligopoly, South Dakota apparently found it relatively easy to push the first batches of coronavirus vaccines out the…