Economist and Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is winding up for a one-two counterpunch to the Republican war on initiative and referendum. This morning I…
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Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is doing the people’s work in Pierre. Yesterday he filed two bills, Senate Bill 102 and Senate Bill 112, to…
The House yesterday voted 58–11 for House Bill 1055, a seemingly harmless little bill from the Secretary of State that changes the timeframe for terminating…
Hear, hear—the Chief Justice wants to reduce the cost of getting hold of court documents! House Bill 1086 strikes from the books the fee clerks…
Brigman Roger Cornelius, my friend, friend of the blog, has died. Cancer got him after a rich and interesting life of speaking out and working…
It’s clearly no longer open season on out-of-state influence in South Dakota, at least not when out-of-staters are supporting the preferred hobbies of our elected…
Bring back bad legislators, bring back bad ideas…. Jon Hansen left the Legislature in 2013 to go to law school. Since he’s come back to…
South Dakota’s potty panickers have treated birth certificates as sacrosanct indicators of their God‘s anti-transgender will. But now a few Republicans are declaring birth certificates…
Our victory in SD Voice v. Noem II (and that’s not the editorial we—the judge’s ruling in my favor was a win for all South…
Four of the five sponsors of House Bill 1092, to extend immunity to off-road-vehicle rental outfits for owies their customers get, are also sponsoring House…