One of the biggest single spending bills in the hopper comes before Senate State Affairs on Friday. Senate Bill 62 proposes giving the Board of Water…
Month: January 2022
Pierre’s most awkward meeting this week happens tomorrow morning, January 20, when Senate Judiciary meets at 8 a.m. in Room 413 of the Capitol to…
South Dakota voters are supposed to vote this June on Amendment C, a proposal from Republican legislators to require a 60% yes vote to enact…
Last year, our Republican Governor and Republican-appointed judges killed Amendment A, the legalization of marijuana that voters approved in 2020, on the argument that it…
Criticism from her former right-wing advisor notwithstanding, Governor Kristi Noem’s retread bill to discriminate against South Dakota’s (what, two? three?) transgender school athletes passed Senate…
Guess who didn’t sign a non-disparagement clause on her way out the door…. Caroline Thorman was another of the Beltway politicos whom Governor Kristi Noem…
This is the kind of bullying that makes reporters quit covering the Legislature…. Speaking of hating diversity, Senator John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) single-handedly blocked…
Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday is a good day to celebrate all the diverse voices without which we cannot form a more perfect Union. Of…