Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) submits this photo of one of the better bill signings this session: On March 11, Governor Dennis Daugaard signed House Bill…
Author: Cory Allen Heidelberger
What do you get from a Republican Congress? Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and not even the courage to call these cuts cuts: House Republicans called…
I yield the floor to Yankton County Observer editor Brian Hunhoff, who has gotten press in local papers around the country with this Sunshine Week…
Excuse me, Governor Daugaard—did you drop this microphone? I think you forgot to give the jobs report…. Governing reports that 39 states reported job growth from December…
Senator Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) insists “we’re making progress” toward expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Is the key to bringing our ever-recalcitrant Governor Dennis Daugaard around getting South…
Mr. Ehrisman noticed this weekend the 2014 Annual Report from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Among the juicy morsels presented is this chart showing the relatively healthy…
While a majority of Republicans cheer passage of Senate Bill 1, the $85-million transportation bill, complete with a six-cent increase in the per-gallon fuel tax starting April 1…
There I go talking to Republicans again. Rep. Tona Rozum (R-20/Mitchell) doesn’t share Rep. Tom Brunner’s (R-29/Nisland) heartburn over Senate Bill 1, the big road…
So far the South Dakota Blogosphere votes 4–1 against Senate Bill 69, the petition reform bill that mutated into an attack on voting rights. Joining…
When I asked Rep. Julie Bartling (D-21/Gregory) what disappointed her most about the 2015 Legislative Session, she cited the Republican leadership’s ongoing exclusion of the Democratic…