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,…
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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…
Carl Perry wants to move up from moderating candidate forums to participating. This morning’s print edition of the Aberdeen American News says Republican Perry wants…
House Bill 1007 carries the watered-down “Citizen Initiative Review Commission” proposal from the Initiative and Referendum Task Force to the 2018 Legislative Session. As I reported…
While Senator Peters shifts blame for sexual harassment on victims, she’s making excuses for sexual predator Mathew Wollmann, the disgraced Madison Republican who resigned from…