We’re all prone to pay special attention to things that prop up our worldview and ignore the things that challenge it. Pat Powers, for instance,…
Category: South Dakota
Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) offers House Bill 1062, a not quite fully baked idea to promote financial education for all South Dakotans. The bill actually…
More money is flowing out of Pierre in secret. Bob Mercer reports that the state Board of Economic Development approved handing $941,962 from the public…
Get ready for the South Dakota Week of Work, in which our great state will celebrate the amount of work Governor Kristi Noem and her…
Senator Helene Duhamel, whom Governor Kristi Noem appointed in December to fill the District 32 seat vacated by, says she plans to keep her day…
And so it came to pass In the latter days of Babylon That Fred Deutsch, cracker of backs, giver of laws, Lamented the wickedness he…
In recent Legislative Sessions, we’ve added intention exposure to HIV, and first- and second-degree human trafficking to our list of sex crimes. HIV infectors and…
Pat Powers and I agree: the Legislative Research Council’s reformatting of bills on the LRC website is clunky and hard to read. Pat’s critique reads…
The Secretary of State has offered a handful of bills of keen interest to election nerds. Discussed by the Board of Elections last summer, none…
In proof that not everyone in power in South Dakota is full of horsehockey and hate, both the Sioux Falls City Council and the Minnehaha…