In the non-priority, non-issue department, my Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) prime-sponsors House Bill 1041, which would let everyone walk around with concealed pistols without a…
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Senate State Affairs takes up four bills this morning at 10:00. Let’s take a look at what the conservative majority should do with these items:…
Rep. Sue Peterson (R-13/Sioux Falls) goes to House Education this morning to push again for a favor for homeschool students. House Bill 1040 would lower the…
Rookie Representative Kaleb Weis (R-2/Aberdeen) got stuck on House Commerce and Energy and has to sit through four bills tomorrow morning. Poor guy. At least…
Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Rodney Bordeaux told the Legislature Thursday that expanding Medicaid would help South Dakota’s tribes deal with healthcare shortfalls. He said broadening…
I learn from Axios (via The Displaced Plainsman) that South Dakota is among the ten states with the highest percentage of its workforce affected by the…
Governor Kristi Noem better send a memo to Tony Venhuizen’s seat-warmer over in Education, Interim Secretary Ben Jones, and tell him to tell his department…
The Senate* passed Senator Stace Nelson’s useless “build a wall” resolution Thursday (thank goodness that’s over), but only after striking almost every instance of the…
While Governor Kristi Noem has opened her administration with cramped, visionless proposals, illogical Trumpist excuse-making, and bunker-mentality sniping at other states, freshly inaugurated Governor Gavin…
Congressman Dusty Johnson introduced his first bill yesterday, HR 382, to cede some federal land in the Black Hills to Custer County for its airport:…