South Dakota Municipal League exec Yvonne Taylor sent an e-mail to League members yesterday explaining how Speaker Steven Haugaard has taken outrageous retaliatory action against…
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Last May, the South Dakota Municipal League published in its magazine an editorial by its director, Yvonne Taylor, that called over 20% of the Legislature…
My Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) hates answering to the general public. Thus, he has joined sixteen other Republicans (and two Democrats, Representative Ray Ring and…
The discussion of the closed-door meeting Republican leaders held with District 27 residents trying to push the fake complaint about Representative Peri Pourier’s qualifications for…
Representative Steve Livermont (R-27/Martin) played bad neighbor today. After the Legislature seated him and his duly elected fellow Representative Peri Pourier (D-27/Pine Ridge), after his…
Rookie Representative Kaleb Weis (R-2/Aberdeen) got stuck on House Commerce and Energy and has to sit through four bills tomorrow morning. Poor guy. At least…
The South Dakota Legislature needs a shorter oath of office. To take office, legislators are led ploddingly, sometimes one word at a time, through 131…
Senator Red Dawn Foster (D-27/Pine Ridge) cast her vote in the Capitol yesterday; rather inauspiciously, she joined the unanimous crowd in electing career Senator Brock…
Dang it: if Governor Noem would quit hiring kin, I would get to blogging more bills! The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is…