Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) prime-sponsored 28 bills and one resolution this Session, almost all directly advancing American Indian interests. Only one, House Bill 1185, made it to…
Month: February 2022
Senate State Affairs spared schools a little bit of foolishness last week, voting to kill Representative Phil Jensen’s House Bill 1198, which would have required…
Alas, Russian spy Maria Butina is breaking South Dakota men’s hearts again. Just as Ukraine is providing an object lesson in the occasional value in…
The Rapid City shooting range remains alive in the Legislature. The Senate approved Senate Bill 175 on Tuesday, with Senator Joshua Klumb (R-20/Mitchell), who lives…
The excitement about passing a real tax cut for all South Dakotans didn’t last long. Two days after the House passed a two-step reduction of…
Republican legislators are using the prospect of voters’ approval of Medicaid expansion this November as one of their excuses not to cut our regressive sales…
In this year’s Session, legislators have considered putting four constitutional amendments to a public vote in November: turning the Secretary of Agriculture into an elected…
Representative Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) appears to have put a hoghouse bill to good use. After introducing House Bill 1328 as an empty bill on reporting…
Hoghouse bills are one thing, but hoghouse resolutions? Alongside Representative John Mills’s (R-4/Volga) well-thought-out and detailed House Resolution 7004, which condemns Governor Kristi Noem’s nepotism on…
Last week, the Senate killed Representative Linda Duba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) House Bill 1061, which would have given stronger legal status to the appraiser certification advisory council…