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…
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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.…
No need to keep buying Lee Schoenbeck drinks: the Senate President Pro-Tem’s resistance to rehashing a transgender athlete ban has forced bully-Governor Kristi Noem to flip-flop…
The Legislature wisely rejected Governor Kristi Noem’s attempt to unconstitutionally rewrite House Bill 1217 under the thin guise of a “style-and-form veto.” The House threw…
So it’s Veto Day, and Governor Kristi Noem is trying to shoehorn two new bills into the last day of Legislative action. Her new transgender-bullying…
Kristi Noem served in the Legislature for a couple of terms before running off to Washington to play Congress. Does she really not understand how…
House Ditches Legal Pot and Noem’s IM 26 Delay; Medical Marijuana Back on Track for July 1 Enactment
I do not plan to use marijuana medicinally or recreationally, so the Legislature’s decision yesterday to abandon its Frankensteined monster of delaying medical marijuana and…
The South Dakota Senate mostly made South Dakota a less appealing, more dangerous place yesterday. Perusing the March 8 Journal, I find numerous causes for…
While the South Dakota Legislature dithers about impeaching an Attorney General who killed a man and lied about it, the North Dakota Legislature expels one…