The Associated School Boards of South Dakota have a keen interest in seeing the Legislature pass teacher pay raises and avoid passing anything silly with respect to…
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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,…
South Dakota Republicans’ latest spiteful, uncompassionate, and unconstitutional welfare drug-testing bill is officially in the hopper. House Bill 1076, sponsored by right-wing poster gals Rep. Lynne DiSanto…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) leads a whole bunch of cranky conservatives into battle tomorrow with House Bill 1060, to repeal the South Dakota Board on…