A footnote on state misogyny: During yesterday’s Senate Health and Human Services hearing on House Bill 1053, Chairwoman Erin Tobin (R-21/Winner) questioned Representative Fred Deutsch…
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The LRC appears to be saying that House Bill 1137, Representative Chris Karr’s (R-11/Sioux Falls) two-year reduction of the state sales tax from 4.5% to 4.2%,…
Legislators proposed eight constitutional amendments for the 2024 ballot this Session. We get to vote on just one. House members proposed four amendments via House…
Earlier this month, the Eighth Circuit erased South Dakota’s initiative petition deadlines and told South Dakota it can’t require citizens to submit signed initiative petitions…
Pat Powers notices that whackadoodle fundagelical (but not a legitimate ordained pastor) Matthew Monfore was handing around a document at last weekend’s District 30 crackerbarrels…
Senate State Affairs saved the state from another lawsuit yesterday. On an 8–1 vote, the committee killed House Bill 1200, Rep. Elizabeth May’s (R-27/Kyle) unconstitutional…
Rick Weiland and his ballot question committee, Dakotans for Health, hasn’t even begun circulating its initiative petition to repeal South Dakota’s unusual and immoral sales…
In addition to being a convicted grand thief, Sioux Falls online schemer and mansion foot-dragger Vitaliy Strizheus is also a big tax cheat: During Friday’s…
Amidst all the fuss over Governor Kristi Noem’s feckless foreign-policy posturing against China—her big land-audit and purchase-veto bill failed, and the only consolation prizes the…