Some members of the Senate aren’t waiting for the Supreme Court to clarify whether the Lieutenant Governor can break ties on votes on final passage…
Month: February 2026
If Republicans reject the latest Democratic proposal to eliminate South Dakota’s unusual sales tax on food, maybe they’ll at least support a tax break for…
Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources has a chance to approve eliminating one of Kristi Noem’s sillier wastes of money today. The committee will hear Senate…
Rookie Representative John Hughes (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants to give family businesses a tax break. He proposes House Bill 1218, which would require that school property…
In his campaign for Governor, Congressman Dusty Johnson has proposed giving homeowners $400 property tax credits plus two years of zero property tax for first-time…
When I heard Representative Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) introduce his speech in favor of House Bill 1068 on the House floor as a product of artificial…
Rookie Representative (and not a doctor or a scientist) Bobbi Andera’s (R-10/Sioux Falls) quack medicine bill died in the House Thursday on a heap of…
Senator Sue Peterson (R-13/Sioux Falls) is acting funny. Even though she’s a Republican, she has put forward two bills that would encourage more democratic participation…
Representative Brandei Schaefbauer (R-3/Aberdeen) just won’t let go of the issue of people knowing where she and her fellow legislators live. Undeterred by House Judiciary’s…
Attorney and rookie Representative Matt Roby (R-5/Watertown) wants to impose a new requirement on people arrested for domestic abuse. Under Rep. Roby’s House Bill 1296,…