Ah, timing. Attorney General Marty Jackley is heading back to Platte next week to “discuss investigative findings associated with the GEAR UP Program and other related…
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During floor debate on Senate Bill 159, Senator Phyllis Heineman’s make-my-hubby-richer stealth vouchers bill, Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) said that the Governor’s teacher-pay-raise plan would force private schools…
Senator Betty Olson (R-28/Prairie City) faces a hard weekend. She must return home from her last round of using her legislative office to peddle guns and fear to face…
Republicans tell us that social programs like Medicaid (which Governor Daugaard has cleverly delayed expanding for another Session) and food stamps only discourage people from working. Via…
The House killed the last remnants of the medical cannabis bill Tuesday. Rising in opposition to a bill that had already been hacked from a comprehensive…
The final component of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon teacher pay raise plan is on the way to his desk. The Senate yesterday concurred with the House…
One of Rep. Kristi Noem’s favorite hobbyhorses has been the school lunch program. Our Congresswoman has been waging war for years on rules that she…
Former Republican legislator Don Frankenfeld and former Democratic legislator Darrell Solberg, co-chairs of Yes22.org, send out the following press release cheering steps our Legislature is taking to…
As the Legislature underdelivers on the Blue Ribbon panel’s promise to pay all South Dakota teachers what they are worth, the Legislature also adds a new unfunded mandate and…