We have no idea what Rep. David Johnson (R-33) said to his Rapid City neighbor Rep. Lynne DiSanto (R-35) on the House floor Wednesday that…
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Lori Stacey’s right: the House messed up House Bill 1286 yesterday. What started as Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s emergency bill to moot the ballot…
House Bill 1184, the CAFO poopline bill, comes before Senate Transportation on Monday. Speaker G. Mark Mickelson is just a co-sponsor, but you can bet…
TheSiouxEmpire.com is cruising for banishment from the SDGOP spin blog’s sidebar RSS feed with this apt characterization of Senator Al Novstrup’s shocking support for racial…
House Taxation yesterday shot down the food tax repeal and both alcohol taxes that I reported on Tuesday. However, they did hoghouse the per-drink tax…
Bob Mercer offers his observations on who’s shining in South Dakota’s race for Governor. Mercer leans a little toward Jackley for driving the conversation with…
Remember the contaminated dirt TransCanada discovered its contractors had deliberately dumped alongside the road on their way back to the Keystone pipeline spill site in…
Democracy won a few battles in the Legislature yesterday. Most notably, the House killed House Bill 1275, which would have required ballot question petitioners to obtain…
After Senator Al Novstrup got done calling for racial and ethnic profiling, Senate State Affairs shot down Senate Bill 200, Senator Neal Tapio proposal to…
Back in 2015, the new American Civil Liberties Union policy director for South Dakota, Libby Skarin, warned Senate State Affairs that legislation it was considering…