Someone, please, check Rep. Arch Beal’s pulse… or maybe his EEG. As I listened to the audio from Friday’s House State Affairs committee hearing on…
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Rookie Representative Tamara St. John (R-1/Sisseton) finally put some meat on the bones of her House Bill 1246, a bill she hopes will get the…
Senate Bill 86, Senator Jeff Partridge’s effort to backtrack on his famous 2016 amendment’s promise to give back that year’s half-penny sales tax hike with…
Municipalities and rural electric cooperatives were about to go to war in January over Senate Bill 66, which proposed to take away the ability of…
Governor Kristi Noem’s primary and absolute promise at the beginning of this Legislative Session was, “We won’t raise taxes.” The following bills facing the Crossover…
Among the bills on the Senate’s Crossover Day agenda is Senate Bill 179, which sets the maximum tax levies for school boards and the target…
Tomorrow is Crossover Day, when legislators must wear the clothing prescribed by Speaker Haugaard for members of the opposite sex— Whoops, sorry, I was tuning…
Kristi Noem has started off her governorship the way she ended her Congresswomanship: overseeing a deficit. The Legislative Research Council has issued reports on General…
Enjoying some time away from Pierre back in Washington, D.C., Governor Kristi Noem told Politico yesterday that the Trump tariffs have “devastated” South Dakota agriculture: “South Dakota…
(The South Dakota Legislature, with its continual attacks on LGBT children, creates an environment that is injurious to children’s welfare and threatens children with substantial…