Back at the beginning of Session, the Legislature’s Executive Board passed two noteworthy resolutions pertaining to the process for calling a Special Session. According to…
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While discussing the House impeachment committee’s impending Veto Day vote (March 28), committee chair Speaker Spencer Gosch said last week that killer Attorney General Jason…
Governor Kristi Noem and some other opportunistic Republicans spent a day or two last week making a fuss over Representative Steven Haugaard’s utterance of three…
Three strikes and you’re out—or at least, the Governor and Game Fish and Parks are out the $2.5 million in our tax dollars that they…
Bob Mercer, who has reported on the Legislature for 38 years (and worked downstairs from the Legislature for four years under Governor Bill Janklow) calls…
Monday is do-or-die day for bills that haven’t cleared their second chamber yet. The Senate must approve any pending House Bills, and the House must…
While the South Dakota Trumpublican Party spin blog complains that Democratic U.S. House candidate Ryan Ryder‘s tweets are too mean, the Yankton Press & Dakotan…
While Tony Venhuizen waits for incumbent Representatives Sue Peterson and Richard Thomason to officially step into a District 13 primary, all three of District 3’s…
The AP headline is “US States Adding to Financial Pressure on Russia over War.” The Rapid City Journal reads David A. Lieb’s article and plows down to…
Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) prime-sponsored 28 bills and one resolution this Session, almost all directly advancing American Indian interests. Only one, House Bill 1185, made it to…