The momentum for permanently removing Julie Frye-Mueller from the Senate, if there was ever was any, is fizzling fast. On Monday, Frye-Mueller’s ally Senator Tom…
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An eager and Legislatively attentive reader suggests that the Senators who voted to suspend Julie Frye-Mueller all violated South Dakota law. My reader cites SDCL 2-4-6…
While Democrats try to protect South Dakotans’ wages, Republicans look for ways to keep them low. Eight years ago, an Aberdeen legislator tried to mess…
Also slated for death by Republicans this morning in Senate Commerce and Energy is Senate Bill 110, economist and Senator Reynold Nesiba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) proposal…
It’s kind of tough to determine whether employers are paying women and minorities less than they pay the privileged members of the white patriarchy if…
Last Thursday, Senator Tom Pischke warned his colleagues that suspending Julie Frye-Mueller over Boobgate (did you know, Tom?) would lead to lawsuits. Thinking a lawsuit from…
Julie Frye-Mueller got herself suspended from the Senate by being stupid, gross, rude, and personally intrusive. After telling a Legislative Research Council employee that the…
Even Fox News is willing to reprint the AP report noting that Governor Kristi Noem continues to stonewall her local press corps: South Dakota Gov.…
Representative Jess Olson (R-34/Rapid City) and Senator Erin Tobin (R-21/Winner) are taking the pronouns war to South Dakota’s law books. Olson’s House Bill 1175 proposes to…
House Bill 1075, the Governor’s proposal to stop charging state sales tax on food, survived its first committee hearing on Thursday, with House Taxation voting…