I’ve got plans today: “Plans” may overstate it. I’m getting on my bike and going south. I’m going to ride mostly gravel (and dirt, where…
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Good grief—doesn’t the Noem Administration talk to anyone anymore? Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) went to House Education Friday to promote his House Bill 1002,…
In addition to the Joint Rules, the House and Senate each of their own rules. The proposed Senate Rules for this Session include one little…
As reported in Friday’s Senate Journal, the Legislature is considering a few changes to their Joint Rules. Noteworthily: The House and Senate appear inclined to…
On their way home from their first big week of the 2024 Session, legislators will perhaps ponder this evaluation of Governor Noem’s State of the…
In an even more substantive snuffing of gun-nuttery, Senate Education yesterday killed Senate Bill 34, Senator Brent Hoffman’s (R-9/Hartford) really bad idea to require every…
Not included in the welcome flurry of substantive committee activity this first Friday of the 2024 Session is Senate Bill 58, a 132-section monster that…
In a minor exercise of unusual veto power, Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) nuked House Commemoration 8001, a bit of useless right-wing clapping for the…