Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) wants to Question Time to the Capitol! Following Governor Kristi Noem’s unusual snub of the local media on the opening…
Month: February 2021
The Legislature killed both Rep. Tom Pischke’s latest Angry Dad Vengeance Act and a meeting mandate for the Tribal Relations Secretary this week on the…
South Dakota took a tiny step into the 21st century two years ago when it adopted remote online notarization, allowing notaries public to notarize documents…
Representative Taffy Howard evidently got good help in drafting solid language for her government transparency bill, House Bill 1089 (which goes to House State Affairs…
Bloomberg has developed a vaccine tracker to show the nation’s progress in distributing our coronavirus shots. South Dakota enjoyed a brief moment on top, as…
An eager reader sends me to articles: one with Bloomberg’s observations on Governor Kristi Noem’s tyrannical, murderous, but useful-as-counterexample experiment in herd immunity: As many…
Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) has a lot of predictable right-wing horsehockey in his bucket of bills. But he also has a couple of bills…
Nurse Erin Tobin beat anti-vaxxer Republican House Majority Leader Lee Qualm in last year’s District 21 Senate GOP primary. She vowed last November to wear…
Let secession begin! Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) is pushing Senate Bill 129, which would nullify federal law, executive orders, court orders, taxes, and other directives…
In 2008, Governor Mike Rounds got the Legislature to enact Senate Bill 188 (now SDCL 5-14-32 through 5-14-38, weakened slightly in 2015 by HB 1029) to…