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…
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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…
District 2 has its first declared Legislative candidate. Democrat Jenae Hansen from Turton says she wants to represent Hamlin, Clark, most of Spink, and a…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) is using his Legislative authority to push CAFOs while partnering with former state ag development director Paul Kostboth in…
Ah, the smell of money…. Mark Mickelson and Paul Kostboth have been trying to make it easier to set up and expand factory feedlots—concentrated animal…
Rep. Mike Stevens (R-18/Yankton) told the Yankton school board last night that the 2018 Legislature may consider 150 more bills than last year. That would…
Rapid City blogger and columnist John Tsitrian does a good job of taking apart Governor Dennis Daugaard’s rebuttal to Tsitrian’s diagnosis of South Dakota’s anemic…
District 8’s legislators sound notably passive in the face of the dreary budget outlook offered by Governor Dennis Daugaard. Like the Governor, instead of offering…
It’s anyone’s guess whether the House Republican caucus had more chuckles about sexual harassment yesterday. But they did for sure make one unpalatable decision: nominating…