Representative Rebecca Reimer (R-26B/Chamberlain) is pretending to codify Governor Kristi Noem’s promise not to prosecute women for seeking abortions. But Reimer’s House Bill 1220 falls…
Category: South Dakota
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…
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…