Nine Republican legislators from South Dakota traveled on taxpayer dollars in Fiscal Year 2017 to imbibe the corporate-fascist nectar of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange…
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Senator Billie Sutton’s (D-21/Burke) proposals to make state e-mails public records and preserve fiscal documents for at least ten years will get further discussion from…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee appears to have mostly wasted our time on GEAR UP and Mid-Central this week. In the various press about…
Yesterday I erroneously complained on Twitter that, with just two hours to go before the Initiative and Referendum Task Force met, the Legislative Research Council…
Senator Billie Sutton offers two draft bills for the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s consideration today (or maybe tomorrow) in Sioux Falls. The Democratic gubernatorial…
Once the Government Operations and Audit Committee gets done grilling anyone from Tri-Valley who dares show up to talk about its possibly illegal laptops-for-enrollment scheme,…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee has a lot more on its plate today (and probably tomorrow) at its meeting at Carnegie Town Hall in…
Oh! Tri-Valley superintendent Mike Lodmel revises and extends his explanation of his free-laptops-for-homeschoolers enrollment-enhancement scheme! In response to the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s request…
The Legislature’s interim task force on initiative and referendum will meet one more time this week Friday. After approving nine draft bills that on balance…
On September 12, the Government Operations and Audit Committee asked Education Secretary Melody Schopp to attend its October 5–6 meeting and answer thirteen queries following up…