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…
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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…
Remember the March for Science last April? National organizers are making the next logical step that every anti-Trumpist protest movement must now make, turning all…
Josh Silver, founder and director of Represent.US, sees Maine Governor Paul LePage’s refusal to implement the voter-approved Medicaid expansion until the Legislature pays for it…
Lt. Gov. Matt Michels continues to staunchly resist allegations from multiple sources that sexual harassment is a big problem in our Legislature. The President of…
Former Democratic legislator Quinten Burg questions the folksy aw-shucks-ery we hear from some legislators about their part-time status as lawmakers: Legislators who fully understand their…
Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) provides evidence that, whatever corruption may have taken place in the past, Pierre has gotten its act together and will not…