South Dakota Republicans really don’t care about the people’s will. But they care deeply about keeping us from thinking that they don’t care about the the…
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Plus Bonus Advice for Machiavellian Republicans! Supporters of IM22 and direct democracy, your calls and letters to your legislators may be working. After three days of…
Senator Lance Russell wants to ensure teachers can talk about creationism and other religious hokum in science class, but by gum, if we teachers open our…
As we head toward this afternoon’s Senate debate on House Bill 1069, Republican legislators’ fast-tracked repeal of Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, a thought occurs…
Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) is reintroducing the “no sex with interns” rule that the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee and the full Senate rejected two weeks ago.…
In an undercard to the South Dakota Legislature’s sex scandal, KSFY took a stand for journalists’ First Amendment rights against the state. KSFY recorded an interview with a former intern…
Updated 2017.02.25 18:00 CST In their rush to repeal Initiated Measure 22, “South Dakota Lawmakers Are Showing Populism Is a Lie” (so goes the Washington Post headline).…
Senate State Affairs kept the “Repeal the Will of the Voters!” train rolling today, voting 7–2 (Republicans, including my District 3 Senator Al Novstrup, all aye, Democrats…
Instead of picking an experienced legislator like Scott Parsley to replace ethically deficient Mathew Wollmann, Governor Daugaard fills the District 8 House vacancy with a partisan choice,…
Here’s one more reason I’m glad not to have to support Mike Huether for public office in 2018. In vetoing a requirement to record public meetings of unelected city boards…