Representative Ernie Otten (R-6/Tea) evidently has a bee in his bonnet over transparency from the Governor’s Office. In addition to his House Bill 1041, which…
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Governor Kristi Noem’s attempt to buy fired appraiser certification chief Sherry Bren’s silence appears to have prompted at least one government openness bill from legislators.…
Fresh off his chamber’s capitulation to the Will of Schoenbeck in the 2021 redistricting process, Representative Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) wants to drag the Legislature into…
The South Dakota Unified Justice System still hasn’t delivered on producing an easily accessible system for accessing state court documents online ($20 per search? Come…
Evidently stung by one small victory for transparency, Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) has locked the first substantive discussions in the impeachment hearing…
Part-time Governor Kristi Noem told the Sioux Falls Rotary Club today that “those documents 100% prove” that her daughter Kassidy Peters got “no special treatment”…
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…
Press Files Second Lawsuit to Get Names of Legislators Who Called for Special Session on Impeachment
At the end of October, the South Dakota Supreme Court said Speaker Spencer Gosch didn’t have to make public the names of the Representatives who called…
The South Dakota Supreme Court leaves us wondering about the legitimacy of the upcoming Special Session to impeach Jason Ravnsborg. Yesterday the high Court shot…
Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack says, “There’s a substantial amount of misinformation out there” concerning his January 18, 2020, arrest in Meade County for driving…