The House used its hoghouse powers for good yesterday. Senate Bill 144 came to the House floor Monday. Originally part of Senator Brock Greenfield’s (R-2/Clark)…
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Representative Caleb Finck (R-21/Tripp) proposes House Bill 1284, which would do two things the Legislature is loath to do: repeal sales tax exemptions and give…
Governor Kristi Noem’s factory feedlot zoning bill, Senate Bill 157, still awaits its first hearing before Senate State Affairs. That’s more attention than new applications…
The challenge deadlines for both marijuana ballot measures have passed, so unless BIg Pharma or some other outfit is cooking up a lawsuit against the…
The Governor’s Office hasn’t had one of Kristi Noem’s children’s friends send me any nastygrams yet, but the Governor’s agriculture people seem a bit sensitive…
On May 15 the Governor’s Office of Economic Development hosted a webinar on its new CAFO-county bribe program. GOED appears not to have YouTubalized that…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) finally gets an idea—and, predictably, it’s a tax increase. But by no means is Senator Novstrup undermining Governor Kristi Noem’s promise…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) hasn’t attacked science yet this Session, but he’s starting a gun fight. His Senate Bill 87 starts out as a simple clarification…
Hey, county commissioners! You’d better call Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and tell them not to break your budgets with their health care bill:…
Does the Legislature just not trust county governments? Yesterday Senate State Affairs killed Senate Bill 105, a measure that would have given counties a remarkably limited taxation…