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…
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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…
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…