Former Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck says the Governor and Legislature wouldn’t have to play word games to break the school-funding law if they would just…
Category: South Dakota
South Dakota Searchlight gets Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen to remind us how the Governor and Legislature get by with breaking the Janklow-era law that requires…
Rookie Republican Senator Curt Voight (R-33/Rapid City) forgets which party he belongs to and which state he lives in and proposes increased government regulation of…
Evidently hoping to convince us that Republicans really don’t coddle and pardon pedophiles, rookie Rep. Travis Ismay (R-28B/Vale) follows up his inconsistent recall bill for…
Along with its unnecessary digression into a redefinition of petition circulator that would land South Dakota in court again, Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s Senate Bill 33…
If we can amend it to avoid another First Amendment violation and court injunction, Senate Bill 33 promises to make signature requirements for candidate petitions…
After posting seventeen proposals for changes to election law at the November 18 Board of Elections meeting, Secretary of State Monae Johnson has sent seven…
In pressing fashion matters, the Department of Revenue is seeking the Legislature’s okee-dokee to start selling license plates with solid backgrounds. Senate Bill 24 would…
Senator Michael Rohl shows his Republican stripes with Senate Bill 6, which would cut the maximum duration of unemployment benefits in South Dakota from 26…
Senator Michael Rohl (R-1/Aberdeen) is the prime sponsor of a noteworthy seven measures in the 2026 Session hopper. His wide-ranging proposals tackle gold severance tax,…