Now for some statistical Legis-trivia: The 2026 Legislature passed 241 bills (just bills, not resolutions), 42.2% of the 571 bills filed. Only one has been…
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I’ve noted how even the opponents of Senate Joint Resolution 508, the Senate’s proposed ballot question to strike from the South Dakota Constitution the Lieutenant…
“How seriously do you take your job?” When I wake up too sick to work (I rarely do—healthy living!), one of my first thoughts is,…
Rapid City pastor Greg Blanc, who moonlights as rookie Republican Senator from District 35, proposes micromanagerial Senate Bill 108 to “require that all recorded votes…
Remember how back in September I noted that South Dakota’s Republican legislators tend to put constitutional amendments on the ballot that restrict rights? Well, here…
Kristi Noem has a chance to bring some federal gravy to South Dakota. The Legislature’s State-Tribal Relations Committee is recommending that the person 18th in…
Someone arranged for four out-of-state witnesses to spend three hours yesterday telling the Legislature’s interim committee on medical marijuana how bad medical marijuana is. Pot…
The right-wing mugwumps trying to put the brakes on economic development/corporate welfare in South Dakota threw another minor fit yesterday, trying unsuccessfully via the Legislative…
Representative Peri Pourier’s (R-27/Pine Ridge) announcement of her switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party was strangely unspecific to the state of politics…
The big Special Session on the new prison is coming up Tuesday. Governor Larry Rhoden is thus loading up lawmakers and the voters with numbers…