Senate Education amended Senate Bill 134 yesterday. What was originally a blanket ban on any political speech in public schools is now a slightly more…
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In the “No Need to Burn Either Bridge Yet” Department, GOP House candidate Dusty Johnson tweets from the Hughes County Republican dinner with non-committal equanimity: 150+ at the…
Senate Bill 141, the unnecessarily beleaguered update of our child support laws, finally passed Senate Judiciary yesterday. Prime sponsor and Child Support Commission member Senator Arthur Rusch…
Senator Joni Ernst caught heck at a public meeting in Iowa today when she hemmed and hawed in response to a question from a veteran about whether…
KCCR Radio tweets that Yankton lawyer Jason Ravnsborg has announced his candidacy for Attorney General. Ravnsborg’s only previous candidacy, his 2014 bid for the Republican nomination for…
Today’s mantra in agriculture: get big, get a second income, or get hemp? The USDA reports that the number of farms and ranches in South…
Last month when the President threatened to “send in the Feds!” to address rising crime in Chicago (but of course didn’t follow up with any concrete…
With Senate Bill 163, Senator Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) is trying to drag us away from transparency in campaign finance. With House Bill 1200, Speaker of the…
To excuse their repeal of Initiated Measure 22, Republican legislators have promised to respect the popular will by passing replacement measures to satisfy the voters’ stated…
…and other historical notes! Senate Joint Resolution 2, Senator Jim Bolin’s proposal to make it harder for us to amend our state constitution, survived a bumpy…