Senate State Affairs heard Senate Bill 147 yesterday, Majority Leader Kris Langer’s proposal to ban collective bargaining by Regental employees. Leading off testimony for her…
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Two Aberdeen legislators looked cops, firemen, and EMTs in the eye and voted today not to even study whether they deserve worker’s comp for PTSD.…
In 2016, Senator John Thune campaigned for reëlection with this formula for reducing the national debt: “The purpose of tax reform ought to be economic…
What could be more special-interest and smoke-filled-roomy than a special tax—and a tax cap!—for premium cigars. Epitomizing elitism, Representative Chris Karr (R-11/Sioux Falls) writes House…
We’ll get to see who, if anyone, shows up this morning in Senate Local Government to testify for or against Senate Bill 180, the retread…
Senate Bill 180, Senator Jim Stalzer’s effort to salvage some shreds of circulator stifling from the unconstitutional wreck of his co-sponsor Representative Jon Hansen‘s 2019…
Jeffrey Keith Peters is a retired Denver-area optometrist who, according to his Facebook page, went to school in Stickney and at SDSU and now lives…
Is South Dakota’s business model really so anemic that all we have to hang our hope and pride on is the killing and eating of…
In random Google paths, my blog brain went from looking up areas of of South Dakota towns for comparison to our average farm sizes to…
Trumponomics did not cause a decrease in the number of farms in South Dakota last year. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s National…