Senate Appropriations approved House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s extra half-ercentage point sales tax to fund competitive teacher pay, in a 7–2 vote this morning. The two nays came from two…
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Holy cow—is the process working? Are Republican legislators realizing they could lose their seats if they don’t listen to the people and the law? Rep.…
The Senate yesterday approved Senator Phyllis Heineman’s stealth voucher bill, Senate Bill 159, on a 24–11 vote. I note with dismay the two Democrats—Jim Bradford and Bernie…
House Majority “Leader” Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) is not having a banner week for leadership. His effort to bully Rep. Lee Schoenbeck out of caucus…
The House convenes in mere minutes. Among the 20 House bills they must clear on this Crossover Day is one big stinker, House Bill 1161, the…
Don’t expect me to celebrate the Senate’s mild watering dow of the fetal-pain abortion ban yesterday. Senate Bill 72 is still a bad bill, based on bad science, and…
I don’t get Lee Schoenbeck’s mid-Session resignation from the South Dakota House of Representatives. The Watertown Republican crafts an amendment (based on his early forward thinking…
I explained last month what bad law and science Senator Jeff Monroe is peddling with his Senate Bill 72, the ban on abortions after the twentieth week…
The Senate and House have two days to clear the decks of all of their own bills. The Senate has thirteen Senate bills on today’s calendar alone,…
On its second try, the South Dakota House today approved House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s funding mechanism for increasing teacher pay. The vote was 47–21,…