The Initiative and Referendum Task Force wasn’t the only interim group empaneled by the Legislature to make it look like they were doing something to…
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District 12 has a Democratic House candidate. Jeff Hayward wants to represent the district that stretches from the Sanford/USF neighborhood in the middle of Sioux Falls,…
Rep. Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) claimed this morning that the state could save money if the Board of Regents quit paying for condoms and remedial…
The Legislature’s State-Tribal Relations Committee was going to meet today at Sinte Gleska University in Mission to tour the Todd County Middle School, take public testimony,…
The 2017 Legislature held a whole special session to deal with nonmeandered waters (Rep. Kevin Jensen appears to call them “rogue lakes“—sounds like a job…
In a mostly fluffy WNAX interview, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) suggests the only problem children in his caucus are legislators who don’t do…
While I wait for the LRC to post the text of the truckload of new bills whose titles they published yesterday, I’m musing over Legislative…
When Patty Shiery told me that the 2012 Republican House speaker Val Rausch and her fellow Republican House caucus members laughed off Tiffany Campbell’s accusation…
I’ve reported on House Bill 1005 (the bad “Yes Means No” referendum wrecker), House Bill 1007 (the weak but salvageable Citizen Initiative Review Committee), and Senate…
In addition to spending tens of thousands of dollars to pay for legislators’ out-of-state travel, we taxpayers are also footing the bill for all legislators…