We have a fourth constitutional amendment in the Legislative hopper! House Joint Resolution 1002 would give voters a chance to change how we fill vacancies…
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The state Chamber of Commerce has posted the 2018 Legislative Social Calendar, the handy list of events where our elected legislators can save their per…
Around the house, I like to say my wife does biology; I do physics. I’ll thus have to ask her about Senate Bill 75, a…
The South Dakota Senate is aiming to be 100% more productive than the House today. Today’s Senate calendar has eight bills compared to the House’s four.…
The South Dakota House of Representatives may hold its first real votes this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. CST, when it convenes to hear four bills.…
The deluge cometh—Lee Strubinger reports the Legislative Research Council has 640 bill requests on its desks, compared to 350 bill requests during week #1 of…
Our discussion of all the taxpayer dollars our legislators spend to travel out of state leads to an obvious question: why would legislators charge us…
The day’s most meaningfully sequential #sdleg Tweets from reporter Dana Ferguson: House Joint Resolution 1001, calling for a special early public vote on raising legislator…
Receiving a briefing from the Department of Education at its first meeting yesterday, the House Education Committee wondered whether it should refer to Don Kirkegaard…