The South Dakota House of Representatives approved HB 1234, Governor Dennis Daugaard's package of destructive education reforms, this afternoon. The vote was 36-33. Updated Vote Count, 17:51 MST: Governor Daugaard got two Republicans who voted nay last time to switch…
Posts published in February 2012
2-4-6-8, whom do legislators hate? Teachers. Women. Vocal citizens. And this just in: homosexuals. Senator Deb Peters (R-9/Hartford) proposed SB 141 to clarify the definition of domestic abuse. Sen. Peters wants to include "pattern of abusive behaviors" in our legal…
Rep. Stace Nelson tells me that of the hundreds of e-mails he's received on HB 1234, Governor Daugaard's really bad stew of unproven and disproven education policies, exactly ***one*** has expressed support for this bill. One, out of hundreds. Nearly…
Earlier this month Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth) got mad and told his constituents to shut up, at least on his Facebook page, about the really bad education reforms that he was supporting. He shut off his Facebook comments,…
...but not without more GOP monkeyshines! Governor Dennis Daugaard appears to have applied the appropriate pressure to his good soldiers in the Legislature. Last Friday, Rep. Brock Greenfield (R-6/Clark) moved to turn SB 170 into a blatant attempt to subvert…
Another Pierre juxtaposition: Today in the House, Rep. Nick Moser (18-R/Yankton) spoke in favor of Senate Bill 146, which would allow individuals charged with prostitution to defend themselves by proving they are victims of human trafficking. In his brief remarks,…
Kudos to Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker, for vetoing his city council's move to extend the terms of city commissioners and the mayor himself from two years to three. Kooiker, who has largely stayed out of the public debate until…
KJAM lets us know that the Lake Area Improvement Corporation has posted the opening for its executive director position. The last LAIC exec, Dwaine Chapel, once told me that his job was, basically, to fix Madison. Having utterly failed, Chapel…