Hopefully we can stay out of the weeds on this one. —Rep. Dan Ahlers, opening debate on SB 154, 2017.03.01 I don’t think it was Representative Ahlers’s…
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The Senate showed its wisdom yesterday—and again, Al Novstrup showed his fecklessness as Majority Whip—by defeating House Bill 1130, the attempt by Novstrup and prime…
In another blow to people power, the House voted 53–14 Monday to pass Senate Bill 59. This attack on our ability to make laws through initiative moves the…
A couple weeks ago, Senator Stace Nelson [R-19/Fulton] and eleven Legislative colleagues raised a stink about carcass bills and vote-trading. In a Valentine’s Day letter to Marty Jackley, Nelson…
Last week, U.S. Representative Kristi Noem thought she’d take a swipe at her primary opponent for Governor, Attorney General Marty Jackley, by writing a letter…
Repeating a line from President George W. Bush in 2002 and President Barack Obama in 2011, President Donald Trump told Congress and the nation last night that education is…
South Dakota Forward invited Senator Mike Rounds to a town hall in Pierre this evening. The pro-democracy activist group didn’t realize when they scheduled the…
In October 2015, shortly after Scott Westerhuis killed his family and himself to avoid facing the punishment for stealing millions from taxpayers via the GEAR UP…
What do Trumpy men like Neal Tapio and Al Novstrup have in common with Osama bin Laden and radicalized Muslims? This is not a joke. This…