The South Dakota Legislature has passed Senate Bill 1, the road bill. I have yet to see a written copy of the final version of the…
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In perhaps the Legislative quote of the week, Senator Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) rises in futile opposition to House Bill 1228, which will create a…
The Legislature killed a piece of human trafficking legislation yesterday. Senate Bill 95 sought to make buying sex prosecutable under human trafficking statutes. That would…
University students were hoping the Legislature could make a tuition freeze a priority. Oh, silly kids: A joint legislative committee killed a bill Thursday that would’ve…
A new Rockefeller/Pew report finds that states are having a harder time getting their revenue projections right: The last three recessions have boggled state revenue predictions, as have…
I was ready to give my Representative Dan Kaiser (R-3/Aberdeen) a hard time for voting against Senate Bill 53, the 2% increase in K-12 funding.…
The South Dakota Legislature threw six legislators into a room to see if they could fix Senate Bill 140, the last-ditch attempt of House Republicans to repeal the South Dakota…
Get ready for two hectic days in Pierre. As of 8:30 Central this morning, the Legislature has appointed thirteen conference committees to reconcile differences between…
To keep legislators and constituents from noticing that they replaced the 10% increase in license plate fees to 20%, House State Affairs Monday amended Senate…
The state medical board adopted new conflict-of-interest rules Wednesday. Jonathan Ellis reports that members of the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners will be expected to recuse…