The 1994 Crime Bill banned Pell Grants to prisoners. In 2015, the Obama Administration created the Second Chance Pell Program, which allows a maximum of…
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Governor Kristi Noem wants to force kids to take a civics test to get their high school diplomas. Representative Fred Deutsch just wants to give…
House Bill 1050 sensibly updates and toughens up our credit card fraud statutes. Brought by Rep. Hugh Bartels (R-5/Watertown), HB 1050 revises the law in…
The discussion of the closed-door meeting Republican leaders held with District 27 residents trying to push the fake complaint about Representative Peri Pourier’s qualifications for…
Representative Steve Livermont (R-27/Martin) played bad neighbor today. After the Legislature seated him and his duly elected fellow Representative Peri Pourier (D-27/Pine Ridge), after his…
I could spend a big chunk of my morning analyzing the state school report card data tables, which show that thirteen out of 154 South…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) claims he’s all about transparency. But he hasn’t posted any public comment on the Legislative Session so far, and he’s co-sponsoring…
Representative Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) said he wouldn’t piddle around with a potty bill this year, but Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) whipped one out yesterday. The…
Donald Trump continues to prove that, for him, historical and racial sensitivity is less important than cooking up personal insults on Twitter: President Trump invoked…
Governor Kristi Noem’s big-government spending on rural broadband won’t be enough to save small towns from rural decline. We all know that if you want…