In other good news about bad bills, House Commerce and Energy killed Rep. Lee Qualm’s (R-21/Platte) effort to triple setbacks for wind turbines and hamstring…
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House Judiciary passed a civics test last week, though barely with a D. Culture-war maven Representative Isaac Latterell (R-6/Tea) brought House Bill 1154 to crack…
Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) tried to throw another spoke in the wheel of corruption and unaccountability in state government yesterday. Unfortunately, Senator Nelson presented such…
Our man Porter raises a meaty development. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has changed its interpretation of policy and decided that BPI can…
South Dakota’s latest expression of Legislative trans-panic came yesterday from the House, which voted 39–30 to ban teachers from talking about “gender dysphoria.” House Bill…
South Dakota’s official nickname used to be “Land of Infinite Variety,” before we decided to brand out prairie state with the name of a mountain.…
Six individuals are running to chair the South Dakota Democratic Party. How do we choose our chair? As I’ve explained previously, the state party constitution…
Lobbyist extraordinaire Jeremiah M. Murphy stepped before House Education yesterday and made exactly the arguments that I made against Representative Kaleb Weis’s ill-advised Teacher Code…
Our Legislature is showing the good sense to forge ahead with industrial hemp, despite Governor Kristi Noem’s visionless resistance to jumping on that economic opportunity.…
[Note: Four Directions has paid me for freelance writing. Four Directions is not paying me to write this article.] OJ Semans, leader of American Indian…