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…
Tag: state legislature
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:…
A new poll from South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy shows just how out of step Senator Al Novstrup and his anti-democracy…
GOP Appropriators Concerns Unfounded: DOE Never Intended to Seek Federal Grants for Civics Education
Republican Appropriators made a fuss over nothing last week when they issued a grandstanding letter to the Department of Education last week warning them not…
Be still my beating heart: some South Dakota legislators actually want to turn down federal money! Yesterday’s Joint Appropriations meeting included a passel of “letters of…
This sounds familiar: the Legislature is convening an interim committee to study workforce housing. Three legislators (Rep. Perry, Sen. Diedrich, Rep. Weisgram) proposed studying why…
Governor Kristi Noem couldn’t rally support from her own Republican Legislative leaders to come spend a couple extra days in Pierre shouting at transgender kids.…