If you like water, go have a beer… in Sioux Falls this evening with the Friends of the Big Sioux River! These clean-water warriors are…
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Hopefully we can stay out of the weeds on this one. —Rep. Dan Ahlers, opening debate on SB 154, 2017.03.01 I don’t think it was Representative Ahlers’s…
If you like Hilger’s Gulch and brevity, you’ll love Senate Bill 154. Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) offers this simple one-line bill: The Department of Transportation shall utilize…
Speaking of tax incentives, Governor Dennis Daugaard has submitted his grassy-buffer-strips bill. Senate Bill 66 revisits the issue the Governor vetoed last year on constitutional grounds.…
The Class Act of the Week is Democratic Senator Jim Peterson (D-4/Revillo). Senator Peterson proposed Senate Bill 136 this year to incentivize grassy buffer strips…
One of the complaints against Senate Bill 136, the bipartisan grassy buffer strips bill that Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed last spring, was that the bill…
If you want the Governor to sign a bill, it can’t have a “D” in front of it. It has to have two Ds. Following signals…
Skunk Creek is less skunky, thanks to a joint city/state/federal effort to pay farmers to keep their cows out of the water during the best boating months:…
The Aberdeen American News doesn’t endorse candidates. But in yesterday’s edition, the AAN editorial board endorsed my position on grassy buffer strips, a position my opponent in…
Rep. Dennis Feickert (D-1/Aberdeen) and Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) spoke yesterday at a packed Brown County Democratic Forum. Both men discussed the 2016 Legislative Session. School Funding: Rep. Feickert…