The Legislature’s interim task force on initiative and referendum met yesterday and, taking no further public input, approved nine of its twenty draft proposals for…
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On her first day as Secretary of Education, Melody Schopp asked the director of the Office of Indian Education, LuAnn Werdel, to resign. Werdel unloaded…
In the John Wayne Toilet Paper department, Senator Stace Nelson tells his Republican colleague Senator Deb Peters that he will fulfill her request that he…
Aw, Brinda Kuhn! By refusing to come talk to GOAC in Pierre next week, you’re missing your chance to talk about draft legislation that could…
Could Caleb Finck replace Stace Nelson as District 19’s Senator in the 2018 Session? Maybe, if this letter from the Government Operations and Audit Committee…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee may feel like an ugly duckling. GOAC voted unanimously to invite four people to its August 29 meeting to testify…
The Interim Task Force on Initiative and Referendum meets tomorrow to consider twenty draft proposals for reforming (and, all too frequently, hurting) South Dakota’s ballot…
Senator Jim Bolin joins his colleagues Rep. Tim Reed and Senator Ernie Otten in the continuing Republican war against people power. Even though he said…
Responding to the revision error in the currently circulating recreational-marijuana petition, Rep. Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) said on August 1 that he and fellow interim initiative…
Governor Dennis Daugaard effectively scared legislators off pushing any anti-transgender potty-panic bills last winter. Now Family Heritage Alliance says it will hold off anti-transgender measures…