The South Dakota Legislature takes my advice and moves Veto Day online! According to a press release issued this morning, the South Dakota Legislature will…
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With far less discussion than provoked by its bar-hookah-gym closure, the Rapid City Common Council last night repealed its idiosyncratic 2004 moratorium on telephonic and…
Lee Strubinger asked Governor Kristi Noem yesterday if she’s thinking about calling a special session of the Legislature to address the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Noem…
Oh, yeah, and while y’all were out hoarding toilet paper, the Legislature passed a budget. Actual FY2018 Actual FY 2019 Budgeted FY 2020 Requested FY…
LGBTQ advocacy group Equality South Dakota is distributing this scorecard on legislators’ votes on this Session’s three attacks on South Dakotans who challenge our Christofascist…
The 2020 Legislature closed its final regular meeting on a stinky note, yet again abandoning a plan to offer needs-based scholarships to South Dakota’s university…
Governor Kristi Noem talks a lot about the importance of openness and transparency in government. Apparently that doesn’t extend to discussions of coronavirus, as she…
Given that the Legislature is showing its willingness to hoghouse bills at the last minute for surprise purposes, I propose several new bills that the…
With our state budget projection swinging wildly back to nominal and hemp and pay raises mostly hammered out, and with the deadline past for final…
We are the dead… the Walking Dead: So says Jo Johnson of the ravenously bigoted legislation with which Republican legislators like Tony Randolph, Fred Deutsch,…