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…
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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…
I failed twice to remove part-time Aberdeen resident and do-nothing Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) from the South Dakota Legislature. Now it appears that, if he…
House Impeachment Cmte Subpoenas DPS Sec. Price, Four Investigators, Numerous Documents on Ravnsborg
The impeachment Special Session will run into the regular 2022 Session of the South Dakota Legislature. After three more hours of secret discussions than expected,…