The Legislature won’t give teachers any more money, but it won’t take any more money from retailers. The House yesterday shot down House Appropriations chief…
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The Senate put a cork in Senator and paid Trump consultant Neal Tapio‘s pro-Trump/anti-Islam grandstanding yesterday. After allowing Watertown’s Trump spokesman his eight minutes of pathetic…
Mike Huether gets some free press for his 2018 buzz-building effort by co-signing one little letter with six other South Dakota mayors to Senator John…
Hey, do you remember how the Legislature got lots of us to support increasing the state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% last year by promising…
Since the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act includes a provision banning Medicaid from paying for care at Planned Parenthood (because Republican health care reform…
We’ll get at least one good pipeline protest in before Senate Bill 176 takes effect and gives the Governor more power to quash public demonstrations:…
Bob Mercer faintly exaggerates the “long slide” of Democratic voter registration in South Dakota. We’re not surging, but according to the March 1 voter count from Secretary of…
Dana Ferguson reports that Jack Heyd of Box Elder plans to follow through with his plan to petition an anti-transgender potty bill onto the 2018 ballot. Ferguson reports…
One of the Legislature’s worse ideas this Session, House Bill 1072, allowing people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, passed the Senate yesterday 23–11. HB 1072…
House Appropriations chair Representative David Anderson grabbed Senate Bill 106 this morning and stuffed that last empty carcass bill with a tax increase. Now the Republicans who…