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…
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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…
Senator Deb Peters (R-9/Hartford) suggests that if you’re being sexually harassed in Pierre, you bear some of the blame: Peters said she has never suffered…
More youth and vigor for the Democratic team running for Legislature in 2018: 26-year-old Tyler Volesky tells the Huron Plainsman he’s running for District 22 House:…
Jenae Hansen has some cross-state company. Rapid City Democrat James Preston announced his candidacy for District 32 House yesterday. Details are thin, but Preston promises…
The first bills of the 2018 Legislative Session are in the hopper! As of this morning, I find 23 Senate bills, 15 House bills, and…
Attorney General Marty Jackley issued an official opinion today contending that the State-Tribal Relations Committee does not have subpoena power. Since I wanted the State-Tribal…
Not all Democrats are afraid to test Legislative committees’ authority to subpoena witnesses to investigate the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal. Rep. Susan Wismer (D-1/Britton) offered a…
The South Dakota Legislature has finally caught up with other states and decided to offer training on “legislative ethics, professionalism, and sexual harassment.” All legislators…
Lee Strubinger reports that federal investigators have determined that the shady non-profits Scott Westerhuis set up from his perch at the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative fraudulently…