Representatives-Elect Will Mortenson and Erin Tobin won’t be the only legislators wearing masks in Pierre during Session. Bob Mercer reports that the Legislative leaders are…
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175 South Dakotans died of coronavirus over the last seven days. That’s more than South Dakota’s annual average count of suicides. 819 South Dakotans have…
On Monday, I wrote about the draft issue memorandum the Legislative Research Council produced on surrogacy laws. I noted that anti-surrogacy, anti-LGBT, anti-family Representative Jon…
Some legislators care about the health of their colleagues and the staff of the Legislative Research Council: This fall, House Speaker Steven Haugaard, a Sioux…
Rep. Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) tried to outlaw surrogacy agreements last year, likely as a trick to close another avenue to equality and parenthood for…
The Legislature’s Executive Board is meeting today and tomorrow. Among the fun items on their agenda is an issue memorandum from the Legislative Research Council…
Expect more mindless pablum from South Dakota’s Republican leaders. While Governor Kristi Noem sequesters herself on a social media refuge for hypocritical white-supremacist snowflakes, to…
South Dakota Democrats suffered another devastating election, as Republicans dominated every called or callable race on the 2020 general election ballot. Note: our morning-after reporting…
Some Republican crybabies in the Legislature are mad that they can’t get more welfare checks from the government. Governor Kristi Noem is trying to give…
A couple years ago, we raised legislator pay 90%, in the hope that better pay would lead to better legislating. That hasn’t happened yet, but…