Evidently suffering from too much time and budget on her hands, Governor Kristi Noem felt the need to produce a 1:22 Twitter ad to justify…
Tag: 2019 HB 1191
Governor Kristi Noem is clearly trying to distinguish herself as the Newspeakiest governor in South Dakota history. Outdoing even the rich falsehood quota of her…
The Legislature meets for just three days this week to reconcile bills passed in different forms by each chamber. Five bills are already in conference…
Seth Tupper notes that South Dakota is one of only nine states that have not legalized industrial hemp. Wyoming, one of the states where hemp…
The Senate voted 21–14 yesterday for House Bill 1191, the main hemp legalization bill in Pierre. Normally that would mean the bill is headed for…
Four of the five legislators at Aberdeen’s final 2019 crackerbarrel yesterday expressed unequivocal support for the bills legalizing industrial hemp in South Dakota—House Bill 1191 on…
Eager commenter Jason asked us to seek the opinion of farmers on industrial hemp. How about farmer and Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen), who gave Adam…
Governor Kristi Noem is burning up a lot of political capital to stop farmers from expanding their crop rotation and their profit margins. The Governor…
Governor Kristi Noem hasn’t completely crushed the spirit of wacky power-grabbing House Republicans. On Friday she told the Legislature drop its push to legalize industrial…
Boy, for being all about economic development, Governor Kristi Noem sure doesn’t want to give South Dakota farmers first access to the newly legalized industrial…