Good grief—doesn’t the Noem Administration talk to anyone anymore? Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) went to House Education Friday to promote his House Bill 1002,…
Category: South Dakota
In addition to the Joint Rules, the House and Senate each of their own rules. The proposed Senate Rules for this Session include one little…
As reported in Friday’s Senate Journal, the Legislature is considering a few changes to their Joint Rules. Noteworthily: The House and Senate appear inclined to…
On their way home from their first big week of the 2024 Session, legislators will perhaps ponder this evaluation of Governor Noem’s State of the…
In an even more substantive snuffing of gun-nuttery, Senate Education yesterday killed Senate Bill 34, Senator Brent Hoffman’s (R-9/Hartford) really bad idea to require every…
Not included in the welcome flurry of substantive committee activity this first Friday of the 2024 Session is Senate Bill 58, a 132-section monster that…
In a minor exercise of unusual veto power, Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) nuked House Commemoration 8001, a bit of useless right-wing clapping for the…
Sure, South Dakota has low taxes… if you’re rich. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reports in the seventh edition of its “Who Pays?”…
Governor Kristi Noem makes a new claim that her (corrupt and stolen) bad-plumber ads are working: Today, in her State of the State Address, Governor…
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…