Medical cannabis advocate Melissa Mentele and her organization New Approach South Dakota are inviting supporters to Patients Day at the Capitol on Wednesday, February 10, to support…
Category: South Dakota
Update 09:18 CST: South Dacola gets the video of Senator David Omdahl’s outrageous remarks about transgender South Dakotans. HIs remarks are even worse in full video…
Once again, Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard agrees with Democratic blog Dakota Free Press—House Bill 1158, Rep. Rev Scott Craig’s (R-33/Rapid City) proposal to swamp South Dakota refugee settlement…
Stu Whitney looks at the South Dakota Legislature’s willingness to stigmatize and deny equality to people who don’t look or love the way their Ward-and-June morality says they should and…
Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) came through this week with his proposal to require geographical diversity in signatures on ballot measure petitions. House Bill 1241 adds this formula…
The uncompassionate, unconstitutional conservatives of the South Dakota Legislature just keep trying to kick the poor in the teeth. A week after seeing the DiSanto-Olson…
The work of democracy never ends—I have another speaking engagement on Monday! The Brown County Democratic Forum has invited me to speak at their February meeting.…
The Democratic caucus in Pierre has filed its teacher-pay tax plan. Senate Bill 151 exempts food from sales tax, then raises the rest of the sales and use…
Last night I noted that that the main idea of a Dakota Free Press readers’ bill on requiring 80% landowner consensus to invoke eminent domain has…
KELO-TV is crowing that their coverage of the GEAR UP scandal prompted lawmakers to propose tightening our state conflict-of-interest laws. Yeah, yeah, but have you and your…