The Legislature voted Thursday to raise taxes to fund K-12 education. But our wily legislators are shifting the blame for any higher taxes to local…
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The Joint Legislative Procedure Committee approved yesterday a full 40-day calendar for the 2019 Session: This calendar has some logic to it: Nine weeks have…
Terri Petter is still making money on captive wolves. KIKN Radio finds Petter at the Sportsmen’s Show in Sioux Falls this weekend showing a dwarf raccoon…
Update 11:02 CST: In my original post, I erroneously accused the Legislature of failing to fix House Bill 1286 and South Dakota’s unconstitutional ballot access laws.…
On Tuesday the Tax Foundation published an analysis of the state-by-state cost of Trump’s impulsive and ill-advised steel and aluminum tariffs. This analysis does not…
In this week’s anti-commercial message, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs is trying to put the Mitchell Taco John’s out of business. Testifying Monday in Senate…
…Would Trump Survive This Rule? In other action today, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee amended its “Professional Conduct and Civility” rule (Joint Rule 1B-3) to…
…Upon One-Fifths Request! The Legislature appears to be adopting a rule to rein in hoghouse amendments. On Tuesday, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee voted 13–1…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson and his new big-money friends from California get their special treatment: we vote on the Marsy’s Law fix at our June…
Knock another campaign issue off Kristi Noem’s list… kinda, sorta. Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakotans committed fewer violent crimes in 2017: “The crime…