The South Dakota Legislature is less fond of ochlocracy (like I said, Word of the Day! Scream real loud!) than our U.S. Senators. They didn’t do as…
Tag: state legislature
Hey, high school Democrats! If you’re excited about Bernie Sanders, you may be feeling a bit down this morning after Hillary Clinton’s strong showing in Illinois and elsewhere put the…
Dakota War College posts District 19 Senate candidate Caleb Finck’s press release and asks for money for the young Tripp native’s campaign. Somehow, I don’t think Finck will…
Rep. Dennis Feickert (D-1/Aberdeen) and Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) spoke yesterday at a packed Brown County Democratic Forum. Both men discussed the 2016 Legislative Session. School Funding: Rep. Feickert…
We have fifteen days until the March 29 deadline to submit petitions to run for Legislature, county commission, and other partisan offices. Candidates, you’re welcome: if we had…
Some legislators can hardly legislate and change their clocks at the same time. Professor Reynold Nesiba, Democratic candidate for District 15 Senate, plans to legislate and…
Dakota War College reports that Alex Jensen wants to jump chambers and districts. The man still listed as a District 12 Representative wants to become the…
The final component of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon teacher pay raise plan is on the way to his desk. The Senate yesterday concurred with the House…
As the Legislature underdelivers on the Blue Ribbon panel’s promise to pay all South Dakota teachers what they are worth, the Legislature also adds a new unfunded mandate and…
The funding mechanism for Governor Dennis Daugaard’s teacher pay plan may have survived Legislative debate mostly intact, but the new K-12 funding formula that would apportion that money to…