I won’t be eating crow for noting Kristi Noem’s impotence as Governor… and even if I do, I’ll still have to pay 4.5% sales tax…
Category: South Dakota
Another important bill headed for conference committee is Senate Bill 113, in which the Legislature attempts to replace the unconstitutional 12-month deadline for initiative petitions…
Hang on—Kristi Noem may get to make us eat our words about her food-tax fecklessness yet! In another example of how no bill ever totally…
Senator Julie Frye-Mueller (R-30/Rapid City) sure is hostile toward her fellow woman. She draws censure from her Senate colleagues for harassing a female Legislative employee with…
Last week, the Pierre Capital Journal ran an article by Phil Torres headlined “Libertarian Party Gains Momentum Amongst SD Voters“. The article provided no evidence…
The House of Representatives gets a chance today to spend another chunk of that federal assistance South Dakota got to survive the pandemic. On today’s…
Spending public funds on political campaigns is illegal under SDCL 12-27-20. But that statute doesn’t specify any penalty, so right now, if your school board…
Speaking of poor political performance, Dana Hess notes that Governor Kristi Noem has failed to take advantage of a bigger South Dakota Capitol press corps,…
Al Novstrup fails again. Brown County spent $4.5 million last year to buy a building out in the industrial park that they hoped to turn…