Pat Powers and I agree: the Legislative Research Council’s reformatting of bills on the LRC website is clunky and hard to read. Pat’s critique reads…
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KELO-TV says Governor Kristi Noem wants to (KELO’s words) “wrap up industrial hemp legislation within a few days.” The Legislature rarely does anything in the…
Legislating isn’t all fun and games and saving the Republic. Sometimes it’s just dreary updating of technical language. Possibly the most boring committee hearings of…
Speaking of the budget and the Legislature’s legal obligation to increase teacher pay 2% in Fiscal Year 2021, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) tells the Aberdeen…
Governor Kristi Noem’s New Year’s Resolutions apparently include bringing flip-flops to work. After letting the Legislature re-assign the State of the Tribes Address from her…
SDSU Extension has released a new online guide to Dakota and Lakota traditional games. I can find no explanation in that guide for the wasicu…
Keep quiet about corruption, get a promotion—that’s the South Dakota way! Governor Kristi Noem announced today that she is promoting Rep. Kyle Schoenfish to take…
Apparently dissatisfied with Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg’s subpar performance in court, the Legislature’s Executive Board wants to hire its own lawyer to defend the state’s…
I am pleasantly surprised to find the Legislative hopper freshly stocked on a weekend. I am unpleasantly surprised to find the Legislative Research Council has…
In 2016, the Legislature established the State of the Tribes Address as a symbolic gesture of respect for our Native neighbors, as well as an…