The South Dakota House of Representatives just rejected House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s 0.5 percentage-point sales tax increase to fund increased teacher pay. Here’s the roll…
Category: South Dakota
The payday lenders are waging a desperate multi-front war to stop South Dakotans from stopping their loan sharking. Payday lender boss Rod Aycox has spent…
Erika Unger calls South Dakota home. Most of her family is here. But Unger is not. She is in Denver, practicing law and raising kids in a place…
Several days after Rep. Rev. Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) saw the light and withdrew his ill-informed, fear-mongering, and unconstitutional anti-refugee bill, his reliably reason-impervious neighbor…
When we get to Pierre, maybe we’ll call ourselves the Anti-Ridiculousness Caucus. For Immediate Release: South Dakota Legislative Candidates Call for Veto of Transgender Bathroom…
Eager reader Joseph Nelson asks an interesting question: does Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) still get paid the $123 per diem for expenses for attending the Legislative Session…
Was Senator David Omdahl born insensitive, or is it a lifestyle choice? After spewing his ignorant spite toward transgender kids in a shocking public comment in Sioux…
Given its current preformance, I have trouble enthusing about anything the South Dakota Legislature proposes. The first amendment on our 2016 ballot, Amendment R, is…
From Ken Santema’s video, here’s my two-minute drill on Initiated Measure 23, the “fair-share” union dues proposal: As I’ve noted before, strengthening unions is one component of a broad…
Today was not a good day in the South Dakota Legislature. Social media is aswirl with the ignorance, dissemblage, sexism, and spite displayed by the Republican majority…