Donald Trump could send armed Secret Service agents to patrol polling places during the 2018 general election. So says Section 4012 of House Resolution 2825,…
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On Wednesday on the Senate floor, Senator Stace Nelson spoke passionately against Senate Bill 125, the measure that, as Nelson accurately put it yesterday on…
One-party corruption is so bad in South Dakota that even honest Republicans can’t investigate it. Reps. Dan Kaiser and Elizabeth May tried to get the…
The only discussion of Medicaid expansion in the Legislature this year was a failed attempt by Trumpy Republican legislators, scared of both Barack Obama and…
Heading into the final day of the 2018 Session, the Legislature had dealt with 534 bills. They suspended the rules yesterday to add one more…
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…
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…