A cranky minority of legislators hate bicyclists. We saw an outbreak of two-wheeler-whacking during last year’s successful effort to write into law the passing berth motorists must give bicyclists. Now…
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And now for a real moral battle in the South Dakota Legislature: Senator Arthur Rusch (R-17/Vermillion) has filed Senate Bill 94, his promised death penalty repeal. As a…
Here’s a bill I’ll say yes to right now: Senate Bill 90 is a simple little proposal from Senator Ried Holien (R-5/Watertown) that adds one sentence to…
KOTA-TV reported earlier this month that the South Dakota Municipal League wants to join the lawsuit (case #46CIV15-000094) brought by the City of Sturgis and local…
Rep. John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) shows us how not to write a weekly legislative update. His latest blog post tells his constituents almost nothing substantive…
In the No Hard Feelings Department, an eager reader notices an item in the January 14 Mid-Central Educational Cooperative minutes that escaped my attention in yesterday’s review:…
Hey, Attorney General Jackley! Looking forward to bringing your bill on fetal tissue sales to Senate Judiciary so your friends at the Family Heritage Alliance…
Dakota Free Press goes radio again! I’ll be live on air with Adam St. Paul on his In Touch program at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, Tuesday, January 26.…
Rep. Fred Deutsch’s potty bill is still a paranoid monstrosity, but at least it won’t cost the state as much. House Bill 1008 survived its first hearing…