I’ve heard a lot of talk from legislators at the Aberdeen crackerbarrels about the need to find funding to subsidize wages at nursing homes and…
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Rep. Sue Peterson (R-13/Sioux Falls) failed Monday to get the House to force every school district to allow homeschoolers to participate in high school extracurriculars…
Some legislators fight for the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden. Representative Tom Pischke fights for deadbeat dads and vanity license plate buyers. The Dell…
In 2016, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs was able to plow through eight ballot question petitions by February 4. This year, Secretary Krebs has finished reviewing…
Good policy does occasionally make it through the South Dakota Legislature. House Agriculture and Natural Resources took its turn this morning at House Bill 1119, an…
Oh look! New revenue targets: The top sheet is the new official guess of how much general fund revenue South Dakota will take in this…
I caught the tail end of a really cool Legislative trick in House Taxation this morning. One of the wiliest coyotes in the House, Republican…
The debate that consumed the largest chunk of the House’s time yesterday afternoon was over House Bill 1120, which would require all public school districts…
While I was in Senate Taxation watching business and Republicans maintain their resistance to repealing the food tax, House Judiciary was packed with potty-panickers jumping…
The South Dakota Republican Party spin blog, run by an employee of the party chair, tried this morning to make it sound like Rep. Drew…