I’m not sure if House Bill 1165 is a sneak attack or a snark attack from the Religious Right, but Rep. Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls)…
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With the faux-family values crowd in Pierre, it’s hard to tell if we’re in the 1950s or 1984. The radical religious right who mistake the Legislature…
Habemus bill! Rather, we have a package of four bills from Governor Dennis Daugaard finally putting in legislative language his iteration of his Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan‘ to raise…
The South Dakota Legislature does not wage war on women’s rights and transgender inclusivity unopposed. Two important days of action are coming up next week. First, Equality…
Last week I wondered what the motivation might be for Senate Bill 76, a measure that reduces the setback for most wind turbines on large wind farms…
Guns matter far less to the proper functioning of South Dakota government than our legislators would have you believe. Guns won’t raise teacher pay, expand Medicaid,…
Last fall, the Board of Regents considered pushing for alcohol sales on campus. Only SDSU expressed great enthusiasm; the other campuses’ reactions ranged from cautious interest…
Rep. Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) has a good idea: ban racist school team names! House Bill 1147, introduced Thursday by Senator Bordeaux and four other Democratic colleagues…
Rep. Fred Deutsch’s paranoid potty bill bullies transgender kids. It will also prevent Fred from taking a whiz at next year’s Watertown HS basketball games. House Bill 1008 seeks…
In other efforts to hang the “Different People Not Welcome” sign on South Dakota, the South Dakota Legislature continued its war on transgender kids this week.…