In one of his better ideas, Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) brought Senate Bill 102, which protects the voting rights of victims of stalking and domestic…
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House Joint Resolution 5003, Representative Jon Hansen’s (R-25/Dell Rapids) nefarious effort to erode our initiative power by imposing a 60% vote threshold on any initiative…
It’s bad enough that the Legislature isn’t willing to cross the Governor and require that her Tribal Affairs Secretary occasionally report to the Legislature’s State-Tribal…
Senator Lee Schoenbeck and rookie Representative Will Mortenson join this year’s cycle of the Republican war on people power with Senate Bill 86, which appears…
Get ready for controversy: legal eagle and Senate President Pro-Tem Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is lawyering into the whitecaps of South Dakota’s nonmeandered waters issue! In…
Often when I’ve argued that we need to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay from last in the region to compete for more talent, I’ve heard…
In the last two Legislative Sessions, Governor Kristi Noem made a really big deal about trying to pre-empt protests of the Keystone XL Pipeline (which…
A Twitter friend shares this remarkable statement from South Dakota Senate Preisdent Pro-Tem elect Lee Schoenbeck on the insurrection at the United States Capitol Wednesday:…
There are so few Democrats in the 2021 Legislature—eight Democrats out of 70 House members, three out of 35 Senate members—that they can’t mathematically cover…
New Senate President Pro-Tem Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) has assigned new chairs to every committee but Education. Among Lee’s more laugh-riotous picks is anointed Senator…