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…
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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…
Some of my readers have asked me where South Dakota’s main Democratic candidate for governor, Senator Billie Sutton, stands on women’s reproductive rights. At peril…
The Washington, D.C.-based American Conservative Union Foundation says South Dakota’s Legislature got less conservative this year. Hooray! The ACUF has reviewed each piece of legislation…
Game Fish & Parks has issued the form landowners can file to petition for the closure of “Section 8” nonmeandered lakes, the recently formed bodies…
Well, one bad idea down, five to go. The Legislature’s interim task force on initiative and referendum has decided not to pursue capping the number of…
The Legislature’s interm task force on initiative and referendum convenes again tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. Central in Pierre. At the same time, Donald Trump’s…