Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) blesses reporters and the public with some blunt, bruising, and occasionally insightful, refreshingly party-transcendent, and once in a blue…
Month: January 2024
Right-wing Freedom Caucus leader Representative Tina Mulally (R-35/Rapid City) is proposing House Concurrent Resolution 6001, a toothless declaration of support for the racist, unpopular, and…
In the “you’ll never work in this town again” file, Nate Welch, who used to direct marketing for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, testified…
The Joint Appropriations Committee will hear a report from the South Dakota Retirement System on Thursday afternoon. Among the many fascinating facts about the successful…
As we gird for battle over whether the state can afford $600,000 to pay for school meals for all the kids in the state on…
Even Governor Kristi Noem’s own budget experts don’t support her Trumpist campaign rhetoric about President Joe Biden somehow tanking the robust American economy. In budget…
While some Republicans prance around with their pistols preaching the nonsensical and micropenily compensatory fiction that more guns will make schools safer, a few sensible…
The Department of Labor and Regulation would less work on its plate. House Bill 1058, which the House Commerce and Energy Committee has filed at…
In minor skullduggery, Secretary of State Monae Johnson appears to be working to erode the authority of the bipartisan Board of Elections over her office.…
How dumb is the South Dakota Secretary of State’s office? So dumb that they can’t explain the legal impacts of a law they are proposing.…