We are the dead… the Walking Dead: So says Jo Johnson of the ravenously bigoted legislation with which Republican legislators like Tony Randolph, Fred Deutsch,…
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In another fit of trying to fog up its failure to act on important issues, the House yesterday passed House Cconcurrent Resolution 6023, a resolution…
If wishes were ponies, then beggars would ride, and if resolutions were bills, then legislators might get things done. Cowed by their failure to take…
Why make hunting and fishing cost more? Speaking in favor of Senate Bill 75 from the House floor yesterday, Representative Herman Otten (R-6/Tea) said charging…
Republicans in Pierre claim that collective bargaining limits the “flexibility” of our public universities. In a detailed fifteen-page letter to the Legislature an the Governor,…
The Daily Yonder notes that three Super Tuesday states—Minnesota, Colorado, and Oklahoma—have sizable American Indian populations that could affect the electoral outcomes. The article notes…
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) and most of the Democratic caucus, plus two politically incautious Republican sponsors, offer Senate Concurrent Resolution 603, this reasonable, footnoted…
In its umpteenth outburst of outrageous hypocrisy, the Legislature let die this week a resolution calling for the federal government to rescind the Medals of…
Governor Kristi Noem is far more interested in protecting pipelines than protecting women against violence. Chris Duesing and Brett Curry of the Veteran Service Corps…
Representative Isaac Latterell’s (R-6/Tea) primary Legislative agenda appears to be to waste our time. In the midst of busy-busy Crossover Week, when each chamber must…