Representatives Chris Karr (R-11/Sioux Falls) and Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) have both tested positive for coronavirus. Both appear maskless at the Capitol in the recent photo…
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An eager reader turns my attention to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Covid-19 Nursing Home Dataset, and I get to spend my waking…
I messed up again. Yesterday I wrote that Senator Al Novstrup had shown some civic responsibility in following the Board of Regents rules for wearing…
Amidst the outbreak of freewheeling spending in our cash-flush Capitol, my favorite bill of the 2021 Session is House Bill 1278, wherein we declare that…
The South Dakota House of Representatives Friday saved truly small farmers from facing a big tax increase. House Bill 1085 tinkers with the criteria for…
Axios notes that someone is laundering a lot of political cash through a downtown law office in Sioux Falls. The meaninglessly and Google-defyingly named Custom…
Well, ignorant Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) isn’t completely incorrigible. After violating Board of Regents rules and speechifying without a mask at Northern State University last…
Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) wants to Question Time to the Capitol! Following Governor Kristi Noem’s unusual snub of the local media on the opening…
The Legislature killed both Rep. Tom Pischke’s latest Angry Dad Vengeance Act and a meeting mandate for the Tribal Relations Secretary this week on the…
South Dakota took a tiny step into the 21st century two years ago when it adopted remote online notarization, allowing notaries public to notarize documents…