In this year’s Session, legislators have considered putting four constitutional amendments to a public vote in November: turning the Secretary of Agriculture into an elected…
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Representative Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) appears to have put a hoghouse bill to good use. After introducing House Bill 1328 as an empty bill on reporting…
Hoghouse bills are one thing, but hoghouse resolutions? Alongside Representative John Mills’s (R-4/Volga) well-thought-out and detailed House Resolution 7004, which condemns Governor Kristi Noem’s nepotism on…
Last week, the Senate killed Representative Linda Duba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) House Bill 1061, which would have given stronger legal status to the appraiser certification advisory council…
Contrary to Republican bushwah, the “tyranny” of vaccine mandates has not caused a shortage of health care workers at rural hospitals: Rural hospital officials who…
Maybe we could seize those Russian trust assets to cover a sales tax cut. The House passed Representative Chris Karr’s House Bill 1327 yesterday, offering…
Russia is invading Ukraine. Russia’s aggression threatens our cybersecurity, our energy security, and our economic security. In response, the State of South Dakota should join the…
The Bureau of Human Resources tweets today that the South Dakota Department of Health is looking for a new Communications Director: The job listing says…
Another Republican policy that kills people is “stand your ground” laws. Encouraging people to open fire to solve problems leads to what you’d think is…
U.S. Deputy Marshal Kara Kinney flouted South Dakota’s federal court rules on coronavirus safety last spring. Now has demonstrated more contempt for Judge Charles Kornmann’s…