California can figure out how to tax lithium mining, but South Dakota can’t. Representative Kirk Chaffee (R-29/Whitewood) proposed House Bill 1072 to subject lithium to…
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One of two bills seeking to ban absentee ballot drop boxes passed its first committee vote yesterday. House Bill 1165 tucks its drop box ban at…
(Dang, maybe I need to sign on with Senator Bolin’s objection to officially renaming the state penitentiary and other prisons as “correctional facilities.” Pen Pen works…
Hey, might those right-wing radicals in Pierre be offering to help South Dakota landowners fight the wealthy carbon-dioxide pipeliners who want to take their land?…
You’d think all those hippie farmers in liberal California would rely more heavily on government to sustain their farms than the God-fearing capitalists cultivating South…
Senator Julie Frye-Mueller’s (R-30/Rapid City) suspension may have kept her from working on more wingnut legislation, but on the day Senate President Pro Tempore Lee…
Update 2023.02.03: Yikes! A reader catches me in sloppy linking and reading. I mistakenly linked to and cited the tuition at O’Gorman High School in…
In a small detail from Boobgate, Mike Mueller, husband of censured Senator Julie Frye-Mueller, testified Tuesday night that he has registered as an unpaid lobbyist…
An unnamed Legislative Research Council employee reported to her boss last week that Senator Julie Frye-Mueller walked into her Capitol office last week and told…
While the Senate slaps Julie Frye-Mueller around for bucking one-party rule, the House wants to slap voters around for the same grave offense against the…