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…
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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…
Yesterday the House approved Senate Bill 72, South Dakota’s latest sex-hating, woman-hating, Constitution-hating abortion restriction. This time, we’re writing dubious “science” about fetal pain (see also here and here) into state law and…
Two weeks ago, 21 House members voted against providing $67 million in new state revenue to public schools via House Bill 1182: This morning, 20 of those…
In the face of six amendments targeting the Governor’s new K-12 funding formula, House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) deferred Senate Bill 131 from yesterday to this morning…
Senate Bill 159, the stealth voucher bill, died and was reborn today. This morning I laid out four good reasons that SB 159, which would give…
Uh oh—looks like we Brown County Democrats had better play catch-up! The Brown County Republicans appear to be fielding a full slate for District 3…