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…
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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.…
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…