The Supreme Court affirmed the Lieutenant Governor’s Senate tie-breaking authority yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, the Senate heard President Pro Tempore Chris Karr’s (R-11/Sioux Falls) motion…
Tag: Michael Rohl
O.K., we’ve had our parliamentary fun; now on the policy itself: The Senate yesterday took up Senate Bill 195, Senator Chris Karr’s (R-11/Sioux Falls) latest…
Senator Michael Rohl shows his Republican stripes with Senate Bill 6, which would cut the maximum duration of unemployment benefits in South Dakota from 26…
Senator Michael Rohl (R-1/Aberdeen) is the prime sponsor of a noteworthy seven measures in the 2026 Session hopper. His wide-ranging proposals tackle gold severance tax,…
Tax hike! Tax hike! A Republican legislator is proposing a tax hike! Senator Michael Rohl (R-1/Aberdeen) proposes Senate Bill 7 to increase South Dakota’s tax…
The first bill affecting initiative and referendum is in the hopper, and surprisingly, it is not an attack on direct democracy. Instead, Republican (!) Senator…
Holly Meyer, who once upon a time reported for the Rapid City Journal and now edits global religion news for Associated Press, reminds us that…
On Friday, Governor Kristi Noem used her veto pen to take one more pot shot at South Dakotans fighting for cannabis freedom. Marijuana’s biggest Legislative…
In fealty to his sponsors’ agenda, the SDGOP spin blog regularly lambastes supporters of marijuana legalization, calling them “out-of-touch liberal hippies who have no relation…