Amidst all the fuss over Governor Kristi Noem’s feckless foreign-policy posturing against China—her big land-audit and purchase-veto bill failed, and the only consolation prizes the…
Tag: property
Kristi Noem is campaigning via Breitbart again, now insisting that she’s going to follow through on her Communist proposal to ban property sales to disfavored…
Kristi Noem won her job as Governor by promising not to bloat government. She has proven that promise false with a stream of new hires and…
Representative Aaron Aylward (R-6/Harrisburg) appears to have put a hoghouse bill to good use. After introducing House Bill 1328 as an empty bill on reporting…
NPR reports that foreign investors have doubled the amount of American farmland they own in this century: When the stock market tanked during the last…
Last year Levi Breyfogle submitted two initiated amendments that he’d like to petition on the 2020 ballot. These measures, to outlaw “victimless” crimes and to…
Here’s another needless bill from our legislators. The Republican mother-son team of Rep. Lana and Sen. Brock Greenfield offer House Bill 1197, a measure intended…
So I’m hanging out at day #1 of public testimony to the Legislature’s interim committee on non-meandered waters here in Aberdeen. This is the issue flowing…
Ever since TransCanada plowed its first tar sands oil pipeline across eastern South Dakota, one of my main critiques of pipelines has been private corporations’ ability to use eminent domain…
That Sioux Falls paper lost an open-records case yesterday. Last year, Division of Banking director Bret Afdahl reversed prior practice and declined to make public the…