The 5.8% statutory pay raise legislators will get in 2021 (that’s $688.40 more for each legislator, to $12,580.80 for the nine-week Session, only one week…
Tag: legislator pay
A couple years ago, we raised legislator pay 90%, in the hope that better pay would lead to better legislating. That hasn’t happened yet, but…
In honor of Editor Heidelberger’s big win against HB 1094’s registry for petition circulators, here is an idea for a bill the South Dakota Legislature…
An eager reader asks how much each day of Legislative shenanigans costs us. I’m glad you asked! There appear to be four main budget lines…
When the Legislature’s Executive Board drafted its plan to raise legislator pay and peg it to one fifth of median household income, we estimated that…
A participant in the Leaders Engaged and Determined South Dakota public Facebook group reports receiving a rather aggressive push-poll call from a North Dakota number…
**Update 2018.05.31 14:28 CDT: As noted below by a sharp-eyed commenter, there appear to be two “Citizens for a Strong America” in the political world, and…
The Legislature’s passage of bills raising and indexing legislator pay starting next year prompted one of my Twitter friends to wag, “So collective bargaining does…
Today is the deadline for all Legislative committees to move bills to the House and Senate floors. Assuming a quorum made it back to Pierre…
The Legislature may be working up the courage to vote for its own long-delayed pay raise. On Monday, with little discussion, Senate State Affairs tabled…