The Board of Elections showed its usefulness last November in shooting down one of Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s worse ideas: replacing nominating petitions with…
Category: South Dakota
Why would South Dakota’s libertarians advocating for autocracy? Representative Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg), who ran the South Dakota Libertarian Party before he decided to brand himself…
Rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) is proposing Senate Joint Resolution 507 to have voters say this November whether they want to semi-replace property tax…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) has teamed up with some other level-headed legislators—three House Democrats and Senator Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings)—to propose House Bill 1278, a…
Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources could have saved the state $500,000 and the moral stain of turning kids into cold-blooded critter killers by defunding the…
Senator Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) apparently isn’t very good at writing legislation. Upset that an Aberdeen man killed himself last spring and that a woman watched…
With the Legislature still struggling to coalesce around any plan to lower property taxes, rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) proposes punting the issue to…
Some members of the Senate aren’t waiting for the Supreme Court to clarify whether the Lieutenant Governor can break ties on votes on final passage…
If Republicans reject the latest Democratic proposal to eliminate South Dakota’s unusual sales tax on food, maybe they’ll at least support a tax break for…
Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources has a chance to approve eliminating one of Kristi Noem’s sillier wastes of money today. The committee will hear Senate…