The House has failed to override Governor Dennis Daugaard’s vetoes of House Bill 1149, the Democratic tax cut rejected by Republican budget hawks; HB 1156,…
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The National Rifle Association’s PAC is pushing South Dakota legislators to override Governor Dennis Daugaard’s veto of House Bill 1072, Rep. Lynne DiSanto’s proposal to…
Initiated Measure 22 ran 70 sections, 15,388 words, but achieved all of its main campaign finance reforms (not counting Democracy Credits and the ethics commission)…
While trying to sort out the chaos wrought by the Legislature’s repeal of Initiated Measure 22 and its subsequent multipronged tinkerings, I just discovered a…
South Dakota to Spend 0.73% Less in FY2018… and Some Education Funding Notes! Senator Stace Nelson is already cranky about the state budget. This fun…
The police blotter from Sioux Falls shows how carrying a gun around opens the door to turning a minor dispute into a felony arrest. Two guys are driving…
Senator Stace Nelson tells WNAX he’s unhappy about the state budget passed on Friday. We should not be surprised: Stace Nelson has voted Nay on…
It took Al Novstrup four tries to figure out that there ought to be a rule against legislators having sex with interns. My District 3…
Senate Bill 151 shows how differently two legislative chambers can view a issue. This anti-corruption measure, creating new provisions for reporting and investigating public corruption, breezed…
Well, I screwed that story up. Yesterday I reported, based on a hasty reading of Senate Bill 35 that the conference committee had stripped the…