Here’s a bill I’ll say yes to right now: Senate Bill 90 is a simple little proposal from Senator Ried Holien (R-5/Watertown) that adds one sentence to…
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Rep. John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) shows us how not to write a weekly legislative update. His latest blog post tells his constituents almost nothing substantive…
Rep. Fred Deutsch’s potty bill is still a paranoid monstrosity, but at least it won’t cost the state as much. House Bill 1008 survived its first hearing…
Senator Brock Greenfield and a bunch of mostly conservatives are sponsoring a bill that appears to promote wind power. My neighbors the Novstrups have their…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck provides more evidence that Jason Glodt’s Amendment S is unnecessary. Filed this morning is House Bill 1093, a bill to prohibit any…
A South Dakota Legislative Session can’t go by without someone grandstanding on abortion politics. Attorney General Marty Jackley offers Senate Bill 24, felonizing the already banned sale…
Counties had a good news/bad news week in Pierre. Senate Bill 2, which would give counties a portion of alcohol tax revenues, made it through its first…
Here’s an odd rich-poor disconnect in certain legislators’ thinking. On Wednesday, the Senate Taxation Committee approved Senate Bill 53, a package of bank franchise tax reforms,…