Launching a once-in-history impeachment proved easier than completing the once-a-decade drawing of Legislative districts. Negotiations and cartographic scribblings dragged on at the Capitol through a second…
Month: November 2021
Could Governor Kristi Noem’s whitewash–redo of K-12 social studies standards become a campaign issue in 2022? It could in the hands of a campaigner who…
South Dakota’s continued to rack up coronavirus deaths through October about as fast as it did a year ago, but our covid-recklessness appears to have…
South Dakota’s first impeachment rolled forward today, as the House, meeting in its second Special Session of this week, approved House Resolution 7001, which establishes…
Those of you who’d like to compare the House Grouse and Senate Blackbird redistricting maps can try reading the text of the two bills proposed…
Friends of a fair and independent redistricting process evidently failed to collect enough signatures by yesterday’s deadline to submit their petition for a constitutional amendment…
According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…
One Republican willing to run interference for killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is Representative Greg Jamison (R-12/Sioux Falls), who signals that he doesn’t want to…
New blue-state refugee cops in Pennington County are taking “a few steps back” in pay to work in South Dakota law enforcement. But who needs…
The Department of Education indicated it would take nominations for the new K-12 social studies standards commission that Governor Kristi Noem hopes will produce standards more…