The 5.8% statutory pay raise legislators will get in 2021 (that’s $688.40 more for each legislator, to $12,580.80 for the nine-week Session, only one week…
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On Monday, I wrote about the draft issue memorandum the Legislative Research Council produced on surrogacy laws. I noted that anti-surrogacy, anti-LGBT, anti-family Representative Jon…
Imagine firefighters showing up to your house fire but not using all the water in their tank, even though the fire is spreading, because they…
Could reality finally be setting in here in South Dakota? Could we be finally be ready to say that days with over a thousand new…
Aberdeen continues to rake in radically more sales tax than it did last year. The October report on municipal tax due shows that Aberdeen raked…
Upon receiving information Monday afternoon that someone had threatened someone else with a weapon in the school parking lot, Aberdeen Central High School locked down…
Some legislators care about the health of their colleagues and the staff of the Legislative Research Council: This fall, House Speaker Steven Haugaard, a Sioux…
The South Dakota Department of Education has posted Fall 2020 enrollment figures for our K-12 schools. Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, our 149 public school districts…
With Donald Trump and Kristi Noem waging a destructive constant war with unpleasant reality, it’s refreshing just to read issue memos from the Legislative Research…
Rep. Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) tried to outlaw surrogacy agreements last year, likely as a trick to close another avenue to equality and parenthood for…