The hoghouse fun continues. Senate Bill 176 was supposed to fund the development of online educational resources. In its original form, the Department of Education would have…
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Independent Kurt Evans is unhappy, and rightly so. The only declared candidate for the U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in 2016 has watched Senate Bill 69 morph…
Thanks to House amendment, Senate Bill 69 now would set the deadline for filing nominating petitions as the third Tuesday in March. That’s one or two weeks…
Senate Bill 69, the main component of the big petition reform package, almost died yesterday. This bastard child of good intentions and incumbent ass-covering lurched to the House…
Rep. G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) must be tired. During Tuesday’s House debate on Senate Bill 69, the main petition reform bill, he got two facts wrong about the…
Senator John Thune and Senator M. Michael Rounds joined 45 other Republican Senators in signing an open letter to the leaders of Iran to, as explained by letter instigator and…
Ken Santema lists the sixteen bills before the South Dakota Senate today and the thirty-five bills before the House, the last day for bills to…
Count on Bob Mercer to roam the halls of the Capitol and sniff out the nasty politics behind the House State Affairs Committee’s unconscionable charade…
Senate Education tried to redeem the Legislature; Senator Brock Greenfield has sullied it. Last week, Senate Education killed the two bills that targeted South Dakota’s…
As I noted this morning, House Appropriations needed this morning to move Senate Bill 53, the annual Cutler-Gabriel adjustment to property tax levies and the…