Representative Taffy Howard evidently got good help in drafting solid language for her government transparency bill, House Bill 1089 (which goes to House State Affairs…
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Governor Kristi Noem’s attack on Representative Taffy Howard over Howard’s open-records legislation reminds me of another instance where Noem’s brittleness and arrogance drew her into another…
Governor Kristi Noem likes to spin criticism against her as a sign that she’s popular and right (kinda like saying Mrs. McGregor’s baking Peter Rabbit’s dad…
So Representative Phil Jensen and Senator Reynold Nesiba walk into a bill…. Go ahead, take a moment, make your own punchlines. Then read House Bill…
Increased sales tax revenues aren’t dissuading legislators from supporting Governor Kristi Noem’s plan to direct the biggest chunk yet of South Dakota’s federal coronavirus relief…
I made more than a little deal out of the Citizens for Liberty Legislative scorecards on general and fiscal conservatism. Republicans voters did not. There…
Last night Rep. Liz May (R-27/Kyle) and Sen. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) filed paperwork (electron-work?) to create the Conservative Republican Caucus PAC. The PAC’s mail goes…
I don’t know what the story is in District 33, but I’m sure there is one. Looking just at the Republican side of the ticket,…
Hopefully we can stay out of the weeds on this one. —Rep. Dan Ahlers, opening debate on SB 154, 2017.03.01 I don’t think it was Representative Ahlers’s…