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…
Category: South Dakota
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…
Right-wing Freedom Caucus leader Representative Tina Mulally (R-35/Rapid City) is proposing House Concurrent Resolution 6001, a toothless declaration of support for the racist, unpopular, and…
In the “you’ll never work in this town again” file, Nate Welch, who used to direct marketing for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, testified…
The Joint Appropriations Committee will hear a report from the South Dakota Retirement System on Thursday afternoon. Among the many fascinating facts about the successful…
As we gird for battle over whether the state can afford $600,000 to pay for school meals for all the kids in the state on…