The South Dakota House of Representatives just rejected House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s 0.5 percentage-point sales tax increase to fund increased teacher pay. Here’s the roll…
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The payday lenders are waging a desperate multi-front war to stop South Dakotans from stopping their loan sharking. Payday lender boss Rod Aycox has spent…
Several days after Rep. Rev. Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) saw the light and withdrew his ill-informed, fear-mongering, and unconstitutional anti-refugee bill, his reliably reason-impervious neighbor…
When we get to Pierre, maybe we’ll call ourselves the Anti-Ridiculousness Caucus. For Immediate Release: South Dakota Legislative Candidates Call for Veto of Transgender Bathroom…
Eager reader Joseph Nelson asks an interesting question: does Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) still get paid the $123 per diem for expenses for attending the Legislative Session…
Was Senator David Omdahl born insensitive, or is it a lifestyle choice? After spewing his ignorant spite toward transgender kids in a shocking public comment in Sioux…
Today was not a good day in the South Dakota Legislature. Social media is aswirl with the ignorance, dissemblage, sexism, and spite displayed by the Republican majority…
Former Representative, still Reverend Steve Hickey weighs in with what sounds like a call for legislators to get their priorities straight. Rev. Hickey looks at the continuing…
Both chambers of the South Dakota Legislature convene at 2 p.m. Central today. The House takes up HB 1182, the sales tax for teacher pay bill; the…
Last Wednesday, House Commerce and Energy killed House Bill 1067, Sanford Health’s effort to undo the “any willing provider” health insurance reform passed by voters as…