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…
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The South Dakota Legislature needs shorter oath of office. To take office, legislators are led ploddingly, sometimes one word at a time, through 131 Constitutionally…
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…
When the Legislature’s Executive Board drafted its plan to raise legislator pay and peg it to one fifth of median household income, we estimated that…
Happy inauguration, says Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) as he rounds up the Republican wing of the South Dakota Republican Party to blast Governor Kristi Noem’s…
When even the Democrat-on-Democrat violence of the Pourier/Foster residency fake-fracas inspires zero chortling from the SDGOP spin machine (which is too busy converting its pants…
As I read Margaret Ross’s hearsay allegations about the residency of Senator-Elect Red Dawn Foster and Representative-Elect Peri Pourier, I wondered why she didn’t bring…
Sen. Jensen Plans to Formally Challenge Foster; Leader Langer Says Foster Qualifies to Serve The Foster/Pourier residency challenge takes three new twists this weekend. First,…