The Legislature has killed a fair number of the dumb ideas that its members have submitted this Session. But plenty of clunkers have already been…
Category: South Dakota
In their ongoing commitment to deterring low-income students from seeking a college education and developing the critical thinking skills that would lead them to critique…
The Legislature had before it five bills to address the conflict between the rural electric cooperatives and the municipal utilities who can unilaterally seize the…
Science says that South Dakota is putting pregnant women and infants at greater risk of death by refusing to expand Medicaid. The 2020 Legislature has…
With the House’s close vote Tuesday to place sports betting in Deadwood on the November ballot, we now have three ballot measures to spice up…
Rosier budget projections have apparently fizzled; Majority Leader Lee Qualm is saying we may be back to stiffing teachers and state employees: Republicans who control…
Senate Bill 180, the revised registry and badging scheme for paid ballot question petition circulators, passed House Local Government on Tuesday with one significant amendment.…
I’m listening to Lori Walsh on SDPB this lunch hour pish-toshing criticism of Governor Kristi Noem’s nepotistic favors to her daughters as misogyny. As usual,…
I thought Representative Isaac Latterell’s anti-porn bill was a ridiculous exercise in conservative self-gratification. The Legislature is actually trying to make it a workable law.…
Incompetent as Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg may be, the Legislature isn’t ready to throw him completely overboard. House Bill 1004 would have allowed the Legislature…