Our legislators haven’t put much in the hopper yet to deserve a whoopin’ (Senator Monroe’s stealth religion-in-science-class bill is the stand-out culture war distraction filed…
Category: South Dakota
Grocer and Representative Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) wants to test her SNAP customers and other neighbors who need our help for drug use. Journalist Brandon Ecoffey agrees with…
Republican legislators are offering an apparent enhancement of South Dakota’s thin whistleblower protections. Today Rep. Don Haggar (R-10/Sioux Falls) filed House Bill 1052, which would…
Mark Winegar and Doug Kronaizl aren’t buying Todd Epp’s thesis on partial victory for ethics reform. To these Vermillion men, who also lead the new Represent South Dakota…
KELO Radio’s Token Liberal Todd Epp invited me down to his luxurious techno-digs on Phillips Avenue for a podcast on ethics reform in South Dakota, with a quick postscript…
Drop that blade: Senate Bill 58 would increase the miles of state highway where it’s the Department of Transportation’s job to remove snow. Current law…
South Dakota Republicans have received what could be marching orders on the 2018 Congressional race. Governor Dennis Daugaard tells Dusty Johnson’s hometown newspaper that he wants…
My racist neighbors’ noise about one brown person’s conviction for trying to grab a woman’s genitals got me wondering, as the father, whether I can offer my little girl…
The headline on Dan Peters’s interview with Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) is that the Majority Leader wants to delay the implementation date of voter-approved ballot measures…
The Joint Legislative Procedure Committee voted 9–5 today to reject a rule barring legislators from having sex with pages and interns. Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) offered…