Worried that we might all talk about policy substance before Tuesday evening’s debate, Donald Trump is distracting us with his demand that Joe Biden submit…
Tag: drug testing
An eager reader shares a print copy of the Thursday, December 12, Black Hills Pioneer indicating that the Spearfish School District is considering imposing drug…
Yesterday was the last day any new bill could be placed in the Legislative hopper. The bill count stands at 272 in the House and…
Farm bill! Farm bill! The House Agriculture Committee posted its first public draft of the 2018 Farm Bill yesterday. Corporate welfare—farm subsidies—stay the same, but…
Do some of the bills in Pierre have you wondering what our legislators are smoking? Rep. Tim Goodwin (R-30/Rapid City) has filed House Bill 1133 to…
I must still be a conservative: most of the time, I end up measuring the success of the South Dakota Legislature by what they don’t do…
Grocer and Representative Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) wants to test her SNAP customers and other neighbors who need our help for drug use. Journalist Brandon Ecoffey agrees with…
Grrrr—Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) says she’s bringing back the same bill to randomly test welfare recipients for drugs that we had to beat back last…
The uncompassionate, unconstitutional conservatives of the South Dakota Legislature just keep trying to kick the poor in the teeth. A week after seeing the DiSanto-Olson…
House Health and Human Services wisely killed House Bill 1076, the unconstitutional DiSanto/Olson proposal to drug test all welfare recipients. GOP mouthpiece Pat Powers offers a good…