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…
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Speaker of the House Steven Haugaard has had coronavirus for two weeks. He says he’s had a fever the whole time and has lost sixteen…
Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) is seeking reëlection so he can go back to Pierre and push more angry-dad legislation to get back at his…
In galling hypocrisy, Pat Powers fabricates political outrage at South Dakota Democrats for supposedly voting against coronavirus relief: Check this out. You’re not hearing it…
Meeting in Special Session yesterday, the Legislature rubber-stamped Governor Kristi Noem’s wildly misdirected and self-serving use of the remaining $597 million remaining in coronavirus relief…
One of the first people to die of coronavirus in South Dakota was Representative Bob Glanzer. Yet with the coroanvirus pandemic raging worse than the…
The South Dakota Legislature meets in Special Session tomorrow. Given that the coronavirus pandemic is worse than ever and most likely to get worse, the…
The Joint Appropriations Committee has issued its recommendation for spending the remaining $597 million of South Dakota’s $1.25 billion in coronavirus relief funds from Uncle…
Governor Kristi Noem’s first executive order in 2019 reorganized two state agencies, moving the Office of Indian Education our of the Department of Education and…
The Legislature’s public hearings on how we ought to spend our coronavirus relief dollars must have been pushing Senators to join their House colleagues in…