The Joint Appropriations Committee is at least trying to solve some real problems. Their House Bill 1281 would put $10,000,000 into a new state brittle database…
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South Dakota took a tiny step into the 21st century two years ago when it adopted remote online notarization, allowing notaries public to notarize documents…
In a seemingly sensible response to the pandemic, rookie Representative Mike Weisgram (R-24/Fort Pierre) proposes House Bill 1090, which would allow boards of non-profit corporations…
The South Dakota Legislature is participating in what we hope is a winter reflourishing of democracy by expanding opportunities for citizen participation in the Legislature.…
We have our first drops in the Legislative bucket… but there’s nothing in the hopper to get excited about yet. Senate Bill 1 is the…
An eager reader notes that one of those new California companies slurping up all the venture capital that Senator John Thune was whining about this…
In our discussion of Amendment B, the Deadwood sports betting initiative, I mentioned that a Yes vote would allow our Lakota neighbors to take sports…
South Dakota Republicans are showing a little good sense on coronavirus. Following the lead of South Dakota Democrats, the SDGOP is moving its June convention…
The South Dakota Legislature takes my advice and moves Veto Day online! According to a press release issued this morning, the South Dakota Legislature will…
With far less discussion than provoked by its bar-hookah-gym closure, the Rapid City Common Council last night repealed its idiosyncratic 2004 moratorium on telephonic and…