The Government Accountability Task Force, empaneled by the 2017 Legislature to look into campaign finance rules, will hold its third and final meeting on Monday,…
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Speaker of the House G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) says he wants the Legislature to offer voters a chance to repeal the crime victims bill…
Yesterday South Dakota Citizens for Liberty released a new Legislative scorecard attempting to quantify the conservatism of South Dakota’s legislators. The scorecard also includes the…
South Dakota Citizens for Liberty have expanded their scoring of legislators from the Second Amendment review posted in July to an assessment of votes on around…
The Legislature’s task force on initiative and referendum wrapped up its work on Friday by taking the last good proposal it had, the Citizen Initiative…
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…
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…