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…
Category: South Dakota
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…
O.K., we’ve had our parliamentary fun; now on the policy itself: The Senate yesterday took up Senate Bill 195, Senator Chris Karr’s (R-11/Sioux Falls) latest…
I hate to lead a policy story with what can be read as a personal tussle, but when that personal tussle is expressed in disagreement…