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…
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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…
We repeal your initiatives, ignore sexual harassment, and now we want you to raise our pay. Such is the pitch the Legislature’s Executive Board wants…
Amidst the flood of new proposals pooped out by the Legislature’s Executive Board yesterday is a plan to have lawmakers give a “State of the…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
TIF-heavy Madison convinced the Lake County Commission last year to give up years of new property tax revenue to subsidize a sure-fire housing and commercial…
While South Dakota’s Republican leadership wallows in denial, other state legislatures are taking concrete action in response to allegations of sexual misconduct. Republican leaders in…