Senate State Affairs spared schools a little bit of foolishness last week, voting to kill Representative Phil Jensen’s House Bill 1198, which would have required…
Tag: Lee Schoenbeck
The excitement about passing a real tax cut for all South Dakotans didn’t last long. Two days after the House passed a two-step reduction of…
As coronavirus closes schools and swamps hospitals, “pro-life” Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) offers this fatalistic excuse for refusing to implement any coronavirus mitigation measures at…
You know what we don’t need in education? More tax dollars shifted to private schools! But that’s what Senator Lee Schoenbeck is up to. With…
I failed twice to remove part-time Aberdeen resident and do-nothing Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) from the South Dakota Legislature. Now it appears that, if he…
On Thursday, Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch blamed his lackadaisical prosecution of the Ravnsborg impeachment investigation on the media, saying that journalists’ lawsuits to…
Resisting some last-minute pressure from Team Noem, the Legislature’s Executive Board yesterday approved the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s request to subpoena ousted Appraiser Certification…
During last week’s Special Session on redistricting, a Legislative intern surprised House State Affairs with a brief allegation of political plotting within her Republican party.…
Friends of a fair and independent redistricting process evidently failed to collect enough signatures by yesterday’s deadline to submit their petition for a constitutional amendment…