There are so few Democrats in the 2021 Legislature—eight Democrats out of 70 House members, three out of 35 Senate members—that they can’t mathematically cover…
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Looks like the Governor and several legislators will need to self-isolate for a few days. Senator Helene Duhamel (R-32/Rapid City) tested positive for coronavirus on…
Mary Fitzgerald expressed strong opposition to both of South Dakota’s marijuana initiatives when she was running for Legislature. Now that voters have passed both of…
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…
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…