Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) wanted to take one small bite at corruption in Pierre. On Monday, two thirds of his House colleagues said they…
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House State Affairs last week approved a measure to state officials from pressuring their minions to contribute to their campaigns. The committee also fixed one…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) has teamed up with some other level-headed legislators—three House Democrats and Senator Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings)—to propose House Bill 1278, a…
Rookie Representative (and not a doctor or a scientist) Bobbi Andera’s (R-10/Sioux Falls) quack medicine bill died in the House Thursday on a heap of…
An eager reader and keen observer of the Legislature responds to my morning post about Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s inclination to reduce absentee voting…
The ongoing discussions of alternative tax schemes and property tax relief in South Dakota expose one deep flaw in South Dakota’s political character: we keep…
In further rearrangement of Kristi Noem’s old furniture, Governor Larry Rhoden yesterday announced the resignation of the Corrections Secretary Noem imported from Colorado: Gov. Larry…
In urgent matters of state, House Majority Leader Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) proposes House Bill 1011, which would add two legislators to the Capitol Complex…
The Republican leaders of the Senate and House are split on whether the Iowa Republicans running Summit Carbon Solutions ought to be able to seize…
As we learn from the discussion between legislators and Regents at the Board of Regents meeting in Madison this week, sensible policymakers understand that the…