During floor debate on Senate Bill 159, Senator Phyllis Heineman’s make-my-hubby-richer stealth vouchers bill, Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) said that the Governor’s teacher-pay-raise plan would force private schools…
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The House killed the last remnants of the medical cannabis bill Tuesday. Rising in opposition to a bill that had already been hacked from a comprehensive…
Proving that its content is Lucky Charms and not eggs and sausage, USA Today chooses to feature South Dakota’s biggest non-story of the week, the alleged misrepresentation of…
Yesterday the House approved Senate Bill 72, South Dakota’s latest sex-hating, woman-hating, Constitution-hating abortion restriction. This time, we’re writing dubious “science” about fetal pain (see also here and here) into state law and…
Two weeks ago, 21 House members voted against providing $67 million in new state revenue to public schools via House Bill 1182: This morning, 20 of those…
The supporters of Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% interest rate cap on payday loans, often note that payday lenders charge South Dakotans 574% interest. IM 21…
Governing posts unemployment data that might make David Novstrup think his youth minimum wage was a good idea. According to new U.S. Department of Labor data for…
Transphobia, same-sex marriage, colonialism, genocide, and Keystone XL? Why yes, it is all connected, just like all of us. So say the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota signatories…
KOTA-TV’s Yasser Kishk reports that the 45-turbine Willow Creek wind farm near Newell will bring 250 temporary construction jobs, a half-dozen permanent jobs, and $190,000 a year…
The funding mechanism for teacher pay raises is on its way to Governor Dennis Daugaard’s desk; now we just have to make sure the House…