To excuse their repeal of Initiated Measure 22, Republican legislators have promised to respect the popular will by passing replacement measures to satisfy the voters’ stated…
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We start the Legislative week with twelve important bills to watch—important because, right now, they are meaningless: SB 104: “to protect certain easement holders and rural…
Here’s one more reason I’m glad not to have to support Mike Huether for public office in 2018. In vetoing a requirement to record public meetings of unelected city boards…
Last year, the Legislature passed Lee Schoenbeck’s proposal to to require public bodies to post their meeting notices and agendae at leas two days prior to their…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has issued an official opinion to clear up the ambiguity of Amendment S (now South Dakota Constitution Article 6 Section 29), the…
In his detailed take on the complications caused by the enactment of Amendment S, Seth Tupper brings to our attention the trouble Henry T. Nicholas’s crime victims bill…
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety and county and city police have stopped issuing information about traffic accidents, for fear that such disclosures may violate the new…
Politicians who decline to speak to the media do so at their own peril. That Sioux Falls paper offered legislative candidates in fourteen southeast South Dakota…
Rep. Paula Hawks is drinking a lot of coffee. The Democratic candidate for U.S. House worked Flandreau and Madison last night; on Monday, she’ll hold town…
The Department of Energy has extended the deadline for bids for the revival of the Deep Borehole Field Test to October 24 at 10:00 a.m. As borehole watchdog…