The House passed HB 1184, the CAFO poopline bill, Tuesday on a 45–20 vote. True to his word, my Representative Drew Dennert reversed his mistaken…
Tag: property rights
At its meeting this week Thursday and Friday in Sioux Falls, the Game Fish and Parks Commission hears its first petition to close a portion…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief with Nevada and eight other states challenging a U.S. Ninth Circuit decision that federal…
Game Fish & Parks has issued the form landowners can file to petition for the closure of “Section 8” nonmeandered lakes, the recently formed bodies…
I keep hearing this word “compromise” to describe the nonmeandered waters* legislation for which the Governor is convening the Legislature in special session Monday. But the…
The Legislature’s nonmeandered waters task force approved draft legislation yesterday to resolve the issue of public access to recently formed lakes that lie over privately owned…
I’m listening to the interim nonmeandered waters committee meeting from the Capitol via SDPB this morning. I notice that the agenda includes eight draft bills (including the…
So for the last few years (and still today!), South Dakota has had the opportunity to expand Medicaid to provide health coverage to 50,000 South Dakotans…
Bowl of granola, glass of orange juice, and Dakota Free Press Podcast #6—now that’s breakfast! https://dakotafreepress.com/wp-content/podcast/DFP006.mp3 On this week’s show, Spencer Dobson and I discuss Aberdeen’s…
Every now and then, my truly conservative District 3 legislators talk sense. Representative Dan Kaiser and rookie Rep. Drew Dennert both appear to agree with…