Is House Bill 1090 the closest South Dakota will get to a Green New Deal? Representative David Johnson (R-33/Rapid City) brings HB 1090 to House…
Category: South Dakota
Boy, for being all about economic development, Governor Kristi Noem sure doesn’t want to give South Dakota farmers first access to the newly legalized industrial…
I sent my petition sample, circulator form, and sponsor’s affidavit to the Secretary of State yesterday to move my meta-initiative petition toward circulation: If you’re…
The proliferation of secret hoghouse bills that were among the items spurring Governor Noem to strike up the band-castrator is also bugging House Majority Leader Lee…
Remember how Speaker Steven Haugaard was trumpeting his desire for a stronger Legislature? Governor Kristi Noem is having none of it: By all accounts, Noem…
When you get done crackerbarreling Saturday morning, head over to Brookings in the afternoon to see a forum of candidates who want to chair the…
Governor Kristi Noem didn’t produce a Glamour Shots video of her first veto the way she did for her first bill signing. She just sent…
Representative Jon Hansen’s first Wednesday hoghouse was about creating cost and complication for ballot question sponsors at the end of the petition process. His second…
Real petition reform is getting a hearing, and democracy needs you to testify! Senator Reynold Nesiba’s Senate Bill 157, a copy of my planned ballot…
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) finally filled two of his hoghouse bills dealing with ballot question petitions yesterday in House State Affairs. One of them,…