House State Affairs was pretty full this morning, thanks to conservatives warring over whether or not to keep calling for an Article 5 convention to…
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At Saturday’s crackerbarrel in Aberdeen, I asked our legislators to weigh in on two competing bills dealing with ballot access. House Bill 1286 defines “alternative party”…
I abstain from alcohol, so, with aside from the giganto-mundo HB 1070 revision of hooch laws, I haven’t been blogging much about to the 23 bills…
I usually pay no attention to the commemorations with which legislators frost their calendars. However, some of the Whereases in Senate Commemoration 28, honoring KELO-TV’s…
Deferral to the 41st Legislative day usually means a bill is dead. House Bill 1007, one of the few reasonable, constructive proposals to come out…
In more evidence that Drew Dennert and I occasionally tune in to the same wavelength, I open a question by saying, “Cow poop,” and our…
At today’s crackerbarrel in Aberdeen, Senator Brock Greenfield professed the Socratic wisdom of the South Dakota Legislature: Local lobbyist Julie Johnson had asked “anybody who…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson is mingling business with Legislature again. In his ongoing effort to turn every rural corner of South Dakota into concentrated animal…