On Wednesday on the Senate floor, Senator Stace Nelson spoke passionately against Senate Bill 125, the measure that, as Nelson accurately put it yesterday on…
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One-party corruption is so bad in South Dakota that even honest Republicans can’t investigate it. Reps. Dan Kaiser and Elizabeth May tried to get the…
The Legislature voted Thursday to raise taxes to fund K-12 education. But our wily legislators are shifting the blame for any higher taxes to local…
The Joint Legislative Procedure Committee approved yesterday a full 40-day calendar for the 2019 Session: This calendar has some logic to it: Nine weeks have…
Update 11:02 CST: In my original post, I erroneously accused the Legislature of failing to fix House Bill 1286 and South Dakota’s unconstitutional ballot access laws.…
…Would Trump Survive This Rule? In other action today, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee amended its “Professional Conduct and Civility” rule (Joint Rule 1B-3) to…
…Upon One-Fifths Request! The Legislature appears to be adopting a rule to rein in hoghouse amendments. On Tuesday, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee voted 13–1…
Speaking of openness, Senator John Wiik (R-4/Big Stone City) seems to think he can close up his Legislative interactions with the public at the end…
Somehow I manage not to get kicked off the radio. Patrick Lalley invited me on his KSOO program yesterday for another conversation about the South…
South Dakota democracy gets a bad review from a visitor from Venezuela. Bo Sistak, Democratic candidate for District 35 House, notices this letter to the…