Governor Larry Rhoden has admitted that his wimpy buck-passing proposal, Senate Bill 96, to let counties impose a half-penny sales tax to lower property taxes…
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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…
Earlier this month, the Eighth Circuit erased South Dakota’s initiative petition deadlines and told South Dakota it can’t require citizens to submit signed initiative petitions…
In the South Dakota Legislature, we Democrats measure success by how long it takes for our good ideas to be defeated. On Monday, Representative Jon…
Hoghouse bills are one thing, but hoghouse resolutions? Alongside Representative John Mills’s (R-4/Volga) well-thought-out and detailed House Resolution 7004, which condemns Governor Kristi Noem’s nepotism on…
The Legislative Research Council’s draft Issue Memorandum on Special Sessions notes that we restrict the scope of a Special Session to ensure that the public knows…
The Legislature had before it five bills to address the conflict between the rural electric cooperatives and the municipal utilities who can unilaterally seize the…
“We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and…
In yesterday’s rollicking discussion of the new food tax reduction hoghouse bill, rookie Representative Jess Olson (R-34/Rapid City) complained that it is “unfair” to spring…
Tomorrow is Crossover Day, when legislators must wear the clothing prescribed by Speaker Haugaard for members of the opposite sex— Whoops, sorry, I was tuning…