In the face of six amendments targeting the Governor’s new K-12 funding formula, House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) deferred Senate Bill 131 from yesterday to this morning…
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The supporters of Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% interest rate cap on payday loans, often note that payday lenders charge South Dakotans 574% interest. IM 21…
Senate Bill 159, the stealth voucher bill, died and was reborn today. This morning I laid out four good reasons that SB 159, which would give…
Uh oh—looks like we Brown County Democrats had better play catch-up! The Brown County Republicans appear to be fielding a full slate for District 3…
Now we know why Senator Mike Rounds won’t condemn billionaire Klan-fave Donald Trump: it turns out Trump is trying to cash in on one of Mike Rounds’s…
Governing posts unemployment data that might make David Novstrup think his youth minimum wage was a good idea. According to new U.S. Department of Labor data for…
House Appropriations has one bill on its agenda this morning. What a nice opportunity to focus their attention on killing a bad bill. At 9 a.m.…
House State Affairs has six bills on its agenda this morning. Incredibly, three of those bills say nothing. Senate Bills 124, 125, and 126 are…
The Senate advanced one bad bill for agriculture, the environment, and citizen participation last week; now the House has a chance to pass one good bill for agriculture, the environment,…
In more evidence that we all need to know our petition law, Rapid City municipal candidates may have to throw out some signatures they’ve collected and start…