In a year of low budget expectations, legislators made one small GOP-dogma-aligned improvement the Fiscal Year 2027 budget approved yesterday. House Bill 1326, the general…
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Rookie Senator Amber Hulse (R-30/Hot Springs) is proposing Senate Joint Resolution 507 to have voters say this November whether they want to semi-replace property tax…
Democrats are taking another swing at repealing South Dakota’s food tax. District 15’s dynamic House Dems Erik Muckey and Kadyn Wittman offer House Bill 1281,…
Rookie Representative Travis Ismay (R-28B/Vale) has proposed nine bills so far this Session. Of the six that have had hearings (recall county commissioners, ban paid…
Rookie Representative Nicole Uhre-Balk (D-32/Rapid City) demonstrates efficient lawmaking by changing one word to make a ceiling-to-floor change in K-12 education funding. Rep. Uhre-Balk’s House…
Representative Kadyn Wittman (D-15/Sioux Falls) again tries to get South Dakota to broaden its professed love for children beyond embryos and help feed hungry kids.…
The savage demolition of the arms of the federal government that don’t shoot people is impacting South Dakota’s state budget. According to the budget briefing…
Former Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck says the Governor and Legislature wouldn’t have to play word games to break the school-funding law if they would just…
South Dakota Searchlight gets Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen to remind us how the Governor and Legislature get by with breaking the Janklow-era law that requires…
Speaking of government expenditures and demon rum… You know what else outweighs the $189.4 million federal Rural Health Transformation grant Governor Larry Rhoden announced yesterday?…