Senate State Affairs showed a little good sense yesterday, transforming Senator Brock Greenfield’s ugly anti-refugee power grab. In Senate Bill 124, Senator Greenfield and a flock of fellow…
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Senate Taxation rejected Senator Troy Heinert’s admirable “Buy American Steel” plan Monday. Senator Heinert had proposed Senate Bill 158 to encourage pipeline companies to use American…
Senator Stace Nelson has rounded up some fellow cranky conservatives to challenge the practice of “vehicle bills” or “carcasses.” Nelson and eleven other Republican legislators* have asked…
We start the Legislative week with twelve important bills to watch—important because, right now, they are meaningless: SB 104: “to protect certain easement holders and rural…
Revel in this contradiction: one moment I run a Debsian critique of Trump’s constant talk about himself; the next I promote my live radio appearance this…
It’s hard to find a Republican willing to stand up to gun nuttery in Pierre. Fortunately, one Republican willing to take such a stand is the…
For further proof that our Republican Legislature gives not one darn about real family values, we turn to Monday’s defeat in committee of House Bill 1120, a…
Representative Larry Rhoden’s criminal political stunt Monday—hitting the panic button in a Capitol committee hearing room just to see how long it would take the…
A key part protecting voters and progressive values from corruption in Pierre (not to mention fascism in the White House) is ballot initiatives. Our Republican…