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…
Category: South Dakota
I’ve had a couple people call this week and ask if they can use material from my blog in their discussions with others about various…
In an effort to actually put some money where the Governor’s mouth is on habitat development, Senator VJ Smith (R-7/Brookings) offers Senate Bill 75, a…
Some Republicans wouldn’t mind expanding the people’s power to refer local laws to a vote… but alas! not enough of them. Representative Julie Frye-Mueller (R-30/Rapid…
I’m intrigued to read that something called Reagan National University appears to be a fake online school with an empty office in downtown Sioux Falls.…
Crossover Week is bringing a merciful death to some typically bad Republican solutions out looking for problems: Yesterday, Senate State Affairs killed House Bill 1225,…
Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) has our state-subsidized dual credit program for high school juniors and seniors on his mind. After reviewing the Legislative Research Council’s…
If Republicans are going to keep telling us that they don’t want out-of-staters bringing harmful legislation to South Dakota, then they need to stop bringing…
Last year Republicans killed Representative Erin Healy’s (D-14/Sioux Falls) proposal that the state study—just study—the need for pre-kindergarten education on Speaker Steven Haugaaard’s (R-10/Sioux Falls)…
Glaringly absent from Congressman Dusty Johnson’s taxpayer-funded pro-Trump propaganda is any mention of the decline of agriculture under Il Duce’s reign. Even Dusty can’t spin…