I noticed something funny about the three-tiered tax levy the Legislature included in Senate Bill 1, the hard-fought road bill sent to the Governor on…
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Rep. Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) cites as his top accomplishment for the 2015 Legislature the defeat of House Bill 1207: Rep. Justin Cronin brought HB 1207 out of concern that…
Rep. Ray Ring (D-17/Vermillion) joined the yeas passing Senate Bill 1, the big road bill, today in Pierre. He says the road bill is the best thing to…
The South Dakota Legislature has passed Senate Bill 1, the road bill. I have yet to see a written copy of the final version of the…
A new Rockefeller/Pew report finds that states are having a harder time getting their revenue projections right: The last three recessions have boggled state revenue predictions, as have…
I was ready to give my Representative Dan Kaiser (R-3/Aberdeen) a hard time for voting against Senate Bill 53, the 2% increase in K-12 funding.…
Here’s a political consistency question to chew on at lunch: South Dakota voters have approved constitutional amendments that require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to impose…