The Senate approved Senate Joint Resolution 508 yesterday with one vote to spare. With his GOP mainstreamers and Democrats divided on nixing the Lieutenant Governor’s…
Category: South Dakota
Whoever’s mad about high property taxes apparently isn’t mad enough to get the Legislature to take action. The only big property tax bill left standing…
The only person speaking yesterday against the Senate’s plan to ask voters to approve removing the lieutenant governor from the Senate’s Presidency was Retailers’ chief…
Representative Kadyn Wittman (D-15/Sioux Falls) has been trying for four years to get the Legislature to fund more free meals for school kids. Yesterday for…
House State Affairs last week approved a measure to state officials from pressuring their minions to contribute to their campaigns. The committee also fixed one…
Rookie Senator John Carley (R-29/Piedmont) tried to spare his radical Black Hills friends Mike Mueller, Julie Frye-Mueller, and Matt Smith the trouble of petitioning a…
After House State Affairs rejected a 50-year sales tax exemption for data centers earlier this month, Senate State Affairs this week approved a complicated plan…
Representative Karla Lems (R-16/Canton) may have hit on a new approach to property tax relief: just make property taxes voluntary! The Canton Republican hasn’t proposed…
The Supreme Court affirmed the Lieutenant Governor’s Senate tie-breaking authority yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, the Senate heard President Pro Tempore Chris Karr’s (R-11/Sioux Falls) motion…
The South Dakota Supreme Court advised yesterday that 24 Senators were wrong and that Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen was right: the South Dakota’s Lieutenant Governor…