Meeting in Special Session yesterday, the Legislature rubber-stamped Governor Kristi Noem’s wildly misdirected and self-serving use of the remaining $597 million remaining in coronavirus relief…
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One of the first people to die of coronavirus in South Dakota was Representative Bob Glanzer. Yet with the coroanvirus pandemic raging worse than the…
The Legislature’s public hearings on how we ought to spend our coronavirus relief dollars must have been pushing Senators to join their House colleagues in…
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) offered the bright idea yesterday that, instead of sitting around waiting to see what Congress might do about the deadline…
I wholeheartedly support Speaker Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) in his bid to reassert the Legislature’s coequal status in South Dakota government by calling for a…
Governor Kristi Noem reaffirmed yesterday that she probably won’t call the Legislature into a special session to adjust the budget for coronavirus and recession. At…
Lee Strubinger asked Governor Kristi Noem yesterday if she’s thinking about calling a special session of the Legislature to address the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Noem…
The Legislative Research Council has posted the three bills Governor Dennis Daugaard wants passed at the September 12 Special Session. They aren’t in nice neat…
We don’t have bills yet, but we have a rough outline of three proposals for the September 12 Special Session and the procedure by which…
Democrats are helping Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard tamp down any election-season concerns about the increase in tax collections the Governor has called on legislators to…