Let’s kill initiative and referendum altogether! must have been what Rep. Steven Haugaard and Senator Al Novstrup meant when they prime-sponsored House Bill 1275, a…
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Senator Al Novstrup is attacking Planned Parenthood with a campaign speech—or maybe a lawsuit—disguised as legislation. Monday the Aberdeen Republican filed Senate Bill 110, which…
District 3 has a full slate of Republican candidates for Legislature. Rookie According to the Secretary of State’s official candidate list, Representative Drew Dennert filed…
Michael Hauke, Jr., didn’t update his LinkedIn page when he moved from Brule County to Brown to serve as our director of equalization eleven months…
Al Novstrup puts the part in part-time legislator, but apparently not the time. In this morning’s preview of the 2018 Session, AAN’s Elisa Sand quizzes the District 3…
In a mostly fluffy WNAX interview, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) suggests the only problem children in his caucus are legislators who don’t do…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s budget address on Tuesday will tackle one thorny contributor to South Dakota’s lagging sales tax revenues—increased spending on health care: Twenty years…
My neighbor Alan Neville uses his regular column in our local paper to call out area legislators for supporting the anti-immigrant rallies that have plagued…
Dan Lederman is determined to lead the South Dakota Republican Party in a full-scale assault on the legitimacy of popular democracy. He has called ballot…
For a savvy politico, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) is remarkably forgetful. The Senate Republican whip can’t remember for sure if he registered as a Democrat……