When Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) craftily moved the vote on Amendment C, the 60% vote threshold for fiscal ballot measures, to this year’s primary…
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How bad are working conditions at the Legislative Research Council? So bad that the Legislature’s Executive Board says they have to add regular secret meetings…
The South Dakota Senate meets in Special Session tomorrow (Tuesday, April 26) at 9 a.m. Central in Pierre to discuss the trial of impeached Attorney…
While Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) has his printer fired up, he might as well get his money’s worth out of attacking House Republicans…
You don’t get to be Senate boss by being completely stupid. Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) is attacking fringe House Republicans across the state with…
So there’s South Dakota Strong, the Rapid City-based group that’s promoting Marty Jackley and other mostly mainstream South Dakota Republicans, and there’s South Dakota Strong,…
This blog’s readers are keenly interested in how the Senate will conduct the impeachment trial of killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R_5/Lake…
Senate President Pro Tempore Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) yesterday announced that Pennington County State’s Attorney Mark Vargo will serve as chief prosecutor and Clay County State’s…
I don’t recall Lee Schoenbeck complaining much about pipelines using eminent domain to run Canadian tar sands oil through farmers’ fields. But boy, aim a…
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…