Seventeen legislators have signed a letter to Governor Kristi Noem telling her to drop her demand that the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux…
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District 7, which is mostly Brookings but includes just enough rural area to let Volga’s Doug Post run, has three-way Republican primary for House. Rep.…
Wait—coronavirus is blowing holes in South Dakota’s budget and everyone else’s, and Governor Kristi Noem says we probably don’t need a Special Session? Governor Kristi…
So there was tomfoolery. In the wee hours of March 31, 2020, Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) made this statement in the Capitol to the South…
The Senate’s special committee investigating Senators Brock Greenfield and Kris Langer for legislating while intoxicated held its first meeting yesterday to set rules and arrange…
Gideon Oakes, chairman of the Libertarian Party of South Dakota, sees an opening for his party. With long-time Hot Springs legislator Lance Russell doing a…
Bob Mercer reports that the party caucuses have chosen the nine Senators who get to investigate the allegation that Senate President Pro-Tem Brock Greenfield and…
The Executive Board of the South Dakota Legislature was supposed to discuss two things yesterday: a couple of appointments to interstate commissions and hiring a…
I know lobbyists are people, too, but if you want a reason to conduct more Legislative Sessions online, check out Bob Mercer’s tweet from the…
So what passed and what didn’t during our Legislature’s historic online Veto-Plus Day? Nine bills passed; three bills failed. The House rightly killed the Governor’s…