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…
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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…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) throws the first belch of the radical right-wing caucus into the hopper with his fourth attempt to wedge his anti-science agenda into science…
Governor Dennis Daugaard reached for an awkward analogy yesterday to justify Republican legislators’ impending attack on our right to put initiatives and referenda on the ballot:…
Governor Dennis Daugaard called on the Legislature yesterday to repeal and replace Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act that voters approved in November. They have…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has fulfilled her promise to bring campaign finance reform measures to replace the voter-approved Initiated Measure 22. Yesterday the Secretary delivered two bills: Senate…
Governor Dennis Daugaard just finished his penultimate (Lori Walsh used that word—bless you, dear lady!) State of the State Address to the 2017 Legislature. The three biggest…