Our civics show ponies continue to trot out their proposals to make us all better citizens. Former social studies teacher turned Senator Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton)…
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The primary solution to South Dakota’s worker shortage is to pay higher wages. I’ve said it. Billie Sutton has said it. Minneapolis Fed President Neel…
Last May, the South Dakota Municipal League published in its magazine an editorial by its director, Yvonne Taylor, that called over 20% of the Legislature…
Governor Dennis Daugaard was inauguarated on January 8, 2011. In his State of the State Address three days later, Governor Daugaard deemed the 127-million-dollar structural…
On January 6, I pointed out how the Secretary of State’s office had read statute exactly wrong in advising that ballot question sponsors need to…
Senate Joint Resolution 1, the plot to take away more of your voice and let legislators sit in Pierre for four years at a stretch,…
My Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) hates answering to the general public. Thus, he has joined sixteen other Republicans (and two Democrats, Representative Ray Ring and…
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…
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…