The deluge cometh—Lee Strubinger reports the Legislative Research Council has 640 bill requests on its desks, compared to 350 bill requests during week #1 of…
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Our discussion of all the taxpayer dollars our legislators spend to travel out of state leads to an obvious question: why would legislators charge us…
Rapid City blogger John Tsitrian appears to be leaning toward Tim Bjorkman in his early read of the Congressional race. Tsitrian, a former Republican now…
The day’s most meaningfully sequential #sdleg Tweets from reporter Dana Ferguson: House Joint Resolution 1001, calling for a special early public vote on raising legislator…
Ag industry leaders and state officials have been telling Donald Trump for months that farmers need NAFTA. But when he whined at the national Farm…
Receiving a briefing from the Department of Education at its first meeting yesterday, the House Education Committee wondered whether it should refer to Don Kirkegaard…
After declaring that SD-ELCA Bishop David Zellmer, the Presentation Sisters, and other South Dakota Christians are waging war on “the Christian fabric of our nation,” Senator…
District 3 has a full slate of Republican candidates for Legislature. Rookie According to the Secretary of State’s official candidate list, Representative Drew Dennert filed…
Kristi Noem is campaigning like a Democrat. You’ll recall that on Sunday, I reported on the record-high travel expenses the Attorney General’s office incurred in…
Attorney General Marty Jackley’s proposed bills are in the hopper—see Senate Bills 61 through 65. Senate Bill 65, one of two get-tough-on-drugs measures from our…