Point of order, Mr. Speaker! Last week, legislators on the House Select Committee on impeachment received a flood of calls from voters urging them to…
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A treason-talker is running for District 30 House. Pat Baumann of Custer announces his Republican candidacy in the Custer County Chronicle (which maybe needs to be respelled…
This is the kind of bullying that makes reporters quit covering the Legislature…. Speaking of hating diversity, Senator John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) single-handedly blocked…
The Republican attack on South Dakotans’ right to make their own laws continues. After overturning voter-approved Amendment A on a stretched legal technicality, Governor Kristi…
Women seeking an abortion already have to make two time-consuming trips to the doctor’s office in Sioux Falls or Rapid City. Now Republican big government…
When I took my deep drag yesterday morning on the Legislature’s big marijuana bong, I noted in passing that Representative Will Mortenson’s Republican friends (and…
One Democratic candidate not invited to the petition-signing party at Senator Reynold Nesiba’s house Saturday is probably Kadyn Elizabeth Wittman. The Phillips Avenue Democrat declared her…
Hey, new District 15 Democrats! Get out Saturday and sign some petitions for good legislators! Senator Reynold Nesiba invites you to his house Saturday, January…
Six days before opening the 2022 Session, the South Dakota Legislature has 43 bills in the hopper. 26 of them deal with marijuana. (So much…
It’s hard to get reporters to cover the South Dakota Legislature and state government in general. The geographic isolation of Pierre, where the Legislature meets…