Count on Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) to bring fireworks to the Legislature. This year, our resident pyrotechnophiliac brings us Senate Bill 56, which does a…
Category: South Dakota
Evidently the Pony Express isn’t fast enough for special county commission meetings anymore. District 28B Representative Sam Marty, who lives a fair walk from civilization…
South Dakota has a number of statutes prohibiting “unfair trade practices” in the insurance industry. Among them is SDCL 58-33-74, which limits the value of…
In the solutions-seeking-a-problem department, Senator Craig Kennedy (D-18/Yankton) offers the true conservative reason to vote against Senate Bill 49, Senator Jim Bolin’s resurrection of the…
Representative Kyle Schoenfish (R-19/Scotland) doesn’t have much to say, but at least he says something. Two weeks into the Legislative Session, I haven’t seen a…
In joining the unanimous Senate State Affairs vote to kill Senate Bill 7 last Monday, Senator Jordan Youngberg (R-8/Madison) made clear that he believes polling…
Why is South Dakota’s suicide rate double that of New York? According to new research from the Boston University School of Public Health, the youth…
In another sign that the South Dakota Legislature is committed to poseurdom over problem-solving, Senator Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) has rounded up 50 Republicans to…
Sheryl L. Johnson of Sioux Falls tells me she has filed a complaint with the Secretary of State’s office alleging that the City of Sioux…