You’d think governing with bicameral supermajorities would be easy. If I were Governor, and if my fellow Democrats held 89% of the House and 91%…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) has two bills seeking to prevent attacking individuals with faked media. Both seem to be reasonable ideas with a reasonable…
Carcass bills are the empty placeholder bills legislators throw into the hopper because they are too lazy to craft bills in a timely fashion or…
Expanding Medicaid can pass the South Dakota House, if we just don’t say “Medicaid expansion.” Retired dentist Representative Paul Miskimins (R-20/Mitchell) offers House Bill 1103,…
When he announced his candidacy for Governor yesterday, Representative Jamie Smith (D-15/Sioux Falls) reminded us of Governor Kristi Noem’s many foibles, including her infamous “Meth.…
Governor Kristi Noem has said South Dakota’s economy suffers because of all the bureaucratic hoops our laws forced her daughter—er, all good applicants—to jump through…
Donald Trump likes killer Jason Ravnsborg, so impeachment is off for another three weeks. But what about those phone calls? Last week an Ohio telemarketing…
The Steinhauer/Rave gambit is on! Since the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations* announced its coalition and its plan to circulate a petition to write…
Representative Charlie Hoffman (R-23/Eureka) says the big carbon dioxide pipeline Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions wants to run across East River is vital to ethanol and…
Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City), well-known for his opposition to science, intelligence, and freedom, pretends to support the intelligence and freedom of science teachers with House…