Grrrr—Rep. Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) says she’s bringing back the same bill to randomly test welfare recipients for drugs that we had to beat back last…
Tag: state legislature
Senator-Elect Al Novstrup continues to show little ambition and less leadership. Elisa Sand reports that Novstrup is visiting with constituents but doesn’t have any planned legislation. Evidently suing to…
Senator-Elect Reynold Nesiba is innocent. Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Aaron McGowan has dropped the single charge of non-consensual sexual contact charge filed against him in…
Donald Trump may not take cybersecurity threats seriously, but the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications does. They’ve proposed House Bill 1020, which would…
Last year, the Legislature passed Lee Schoenbeck’s proposal to to require public bodies to post their meeting notices and agendae at leas two days prior to their…
In a remarkable double-header this morning, Greg Belfrage interviewed liberal blogger me at 8:05 and Republican State Senator Stace Nelson at 8:35 as his first guests of 2017. Holy cow—that’s…
The South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship offers $6,500 (raised from $5,000 by 2015 HB 1147) over four years to reasonably intelligent South Dakota students who pursue post-secondary…
My friend The Displaced Plainsman doesn’t predict his own return to regular blogging (alas!), but he does offer some pessimistic predictions about the 2017 Legislative Session, including continued…
In 2010, the South Dakota Legislature voted to create a prescription drug monitoring program, basically a central database in which doctors and pharmacists can enter the…
Flaccid tax receipts have not deterred members of the Legislature from seeking to spend more money. Among the measures arising from the Interim study of nursing home and assisted living…