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…
Tag: state legislature
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…
A member of the 2012 Legislature tells Dakota Free Press that the House Republican caucus responded in during the 2012 Session with joking and derision to…
This morning’s post on Governor Dennis Daugaard’s possible flirtation with a sales tax on medical services got me reading up on Governor Bill Janklow’s retreat from…
Independent blogger John Tsitrian finds the Legislature’s proposed pay amendment reasonable, given that raising legislators’ annual pay from $6,000 to $10,200 is equivalent to what…
Mickelson, Mickelson, Mickelson—I’m not obsessed; the Republican Speaker of our House is just making lots of news! Speaker Mickelson wants the Legislature to put a…
Senator Jim Bolin presented the Initiative and Referendum Task Force’s mostly bad reforms to the Legislature’s Executive Board Monday. Speaker and E-Board chairman G. Mark Mickelson…