To beat the impending blizzard, the Legislature convened just after midnight, passed a 4.9-billion-dollar budget that most of them had not read, and adjourned at 3…
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Donald Trump continues to treat rural America the way he treated Ivana and Marla, taking them as trophy wives, then getting distracted and dumping them.…
Among the bills on the Senate’s Crossover Day agenda is Senate Bill 179, which sets the maximum tax levies for school boards and the target…
Kristi Noem has started off her governorship the way she ended her Congresswomanship: overseeing a deficit. The Legislative Research Council has issued reports on General…
The proposal to refer Medicaid expansion to a popular vote in 2020 is just one of six ballot measures the Legislature will consider this week.…
Our Legislature is showing the good sense to forge ahead with industrial hemp, despite Governor Kristi Noem’s visionless resistance to jumping on that economic opportunity.…
Rookie Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) said at least week’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel that we’d see some video lottery legislation. This week he signed on as co-sponsor…
The first citizen question at yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel came from Julie Johnson… who, you know, as a registered lobbyist this year for the South Dakota…
District 3 legislators are having a hard time with transparency this Session. Not only are Senator Al Novstrup, Representative Drew Dennert, and rookie Representative Carl…
Governor Dennis Daugaard was inauguarated on January 8, 2011. In his State of the State Address three days later, Governor Daugaard deemed the 127-million-dollar structural…