In another example of Executive Branch overreach, Governor Kristi Noem is using federal money to contravene the will of the Legislature and enact a pared-down…
Tag: foster care
In double-proof that no bill is ever really fully dead in Pierre, House Local Government yesterday dug up Senate Bill 82, a sensible poll-watcher regulation…
In December, the Associated School Boards of South Dakota warned that Governor Kristi Noem’s proposed Stronger Families Scholarship could explode into a voucher program to…
Representative Jamie Smith (D-15/Sioux Falls) says that the likely reversal of Roe v. Wade and the near-total ban on abortion that South Dakota’s trigger law would…
KELO Radio reports that the United States is getting better at placing foster children in permanent homes. South Dakota is contributing to that improvement, but…
Attorney General Marty Jackley’s announcement Tuesday that Janice Howe of Harrold pled guilty to one charge of petition perjury sounded darned peculiar: Charges stem from the…
Hmm… given the significance of Judge Jeffrey Viken’s ruling in the American Indian foster care/Indian Child Welfare Act case in Rapid City, I’d have thought that our…
NPR’s Laura Sullivan is back on the South Dakota beat covering the ongoing Indian foster child scandal. Listening to NPR just now, I learned from Sullivan that federal…