The first death penalty bill hit the hopper yesterday. House Bill 1077, brought to us by Rep. Dan Ahlers (D-25/Dell Rapids) mostly modifies the language…
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Unlike Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls), who thinks the proper remedy to the scourge of big money in ballot measures is an unconstitutional ban…
…But Better Degree Bonuses in Minnesota Seth Tupper reports on a Georgetown study that finds that, in 2015, people without four-year degrees held 55% of…
Senators won’t get a chance to put their new sexual harassment awareness training to work in questioning Gene Abdallah at his confirmation hearing. Attorney General…
Around the house, I like to say my wife does biology; I do physics. I’ll thus have to ask her about Senate Bill 75, a…
The South Dakota Senate is aiming to be 100% more productive than the House today. Today’s Senate calendar has eight bills compared to the House’s four.…
Score one for the South Dakota Democratic Party. Their attack on Marty Jackley’s touring the state to campaign on office time may have fallen flat…
The South Dakota House of Representatives may hold its first real votes this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. CST, when it convenes to hear four bills.…
We all know Governor Daugaard and the rest of the state’s leaders are hoping to save our budget by persuading the Supreme Court to reverse…
Seth Tupper does the homework on the Jackley travel budget question and finds the Democrats and Kristi Noem are probably wrong to imply that Marty…