Whether the Supreme Court uses King v. Burwell to overturn the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits for South Dakotans (which decision Senator John Thune is hoping…
Tag: politics
Texas oilman Kenneth W. Davis Jr. formed his own super PAC last year, Vote2ReduceDebt, and spent nearly three million dollars to back conservative Senate candidates in eight states…
Senator Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) insists “we’re making progress” toward expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Is the key to bringing our ever-recalcitrant Governor Dennis Daugaard around getting South…
While a majority of Republicans cheer passage of Senate Bill 1, the $85-million transportation bill, complete with a six-cent increase in the per-gallon fuel tax starting April 1…
So far the South Dakota Blogosphere votes 4–1 against Senate Bill 69, the petition reform bill that mutated into an attack on voting rights. Joining…
When I asked Rep. Julie Bartling (D-21/Gregory) what disappointed her most about the 2015 Legislative Session, she cited the Republican leadership’s ongoing exclusion of the Democratic…
The Department of Justice says it is still investigating South Dakota’s EB-5 visa investment program… or at least that’s the excuse the feds give Jonathan Ellis for…
Michael Larson properly spotlights the mediocrity epitomized on Senate Majority Leader Tim Rave’s closing comments in the Senate’s debate of HB 1208, the general appropriations bill, passed late…
Senate Bill 69, the main component of the big petition reform package, almost died yesterday. This bastard child of good intentions and incumbent ass-covering lurched to the House…
Count on Bob Mercer to roam the halls of the Capitol and sniff out the nasty politics behind the House State Affairs Committee’s unconscionable charade…