Representative Phil Jensen’s (R-33/Hisega) retread creationism-cloaking House Bill 1172 squeaked out of House Education Friday on an 8–7 vote of Republicans who think there is some “controversy”…
Author: Cory Allen Heidelberger
Governor Kristi Noem wants to knock a five-million-dollar hole in the general fund by eliminating the $150 fee businesses must pay the Secretary of State…
The Legislature eagerly passed Senate Bill 46, the transgender athlete ban, and Governor Kristi Noem made it the second bill of this Session signed into…
In the reporting on those phone calls that some as yet unnamed Governor was involved in to urge legislators to impeach killer Attorney General Jason…
Two of the Legislature’s Lakota members, Rosebud neighbors Senator Troy Heinert (D-26/Mission) and Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission), are out to change some names that indigenous…
In response to her embarrassing failure to line up a second for her marquee copycat abortion ban, Governor Kristi Noem complained that House State Affairs…
You’d think governing with bicameral supermajorities would be easy. If I were Governor, and if my fellow Democrats held 89% of the House and 91%…
Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) has two bills seeking to prevent attacking individuals with faked media. Both seem to be reasonable ideas with a reasonable…
Carcass bills are the empty placeholder bills legislators throw into the hopper because they are too lazy to craft bills in a timely fashion or…
Expanding Medicaid can pass the South Dakota House, if we just don’t say “Medicaid expansion.” Retired dentist Representative Paul Miskimins (R-20/Mitchell) offers House Bill 1103,…