A couple of Twitter friends point out one radical bit of gerrymandering in the House-favored “Grouse” redistricting map proposed by Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen): Vermillion…
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Merry Christmas! say Republican legislators to the League of Women Voters and other advocates petitioning for a vote on an independent redistricting commission. Republicans are…
Bob Mercer leads the charge for open records and gets results. He apparently has challenged Legislative leaders’ unconscionable decision to keep secret the names of…
In today’s gaslighting report, Kristi Noem’s spokesboy Ian Fury tries telling a fellow radical right-winger that the Governor never supported the emergency coronavirus response legislation…
Governor Kristi Noem has had some trouble understanding the proper scope of the style-and-form veto. To aid her understanding and their own, the Legislature asked…
I’m working on interpreting the data files the United States Census Bureau has made available to legislators and the public for redrawing the maps for…
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee gets to hear from the Department of Corrections on Wednesday on what it’s doing to fill its growing empty positions. According…
Speaker Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) is so mad at Representative Shawn Bordeaux for being an uppity Indian that he’s not satisfied with removing Bordeaux as chair…
Only in South Dakota do white legislators get to cancel a committee meant to promote better interracial relations by branding its Lakota chairman as racist:…