In mostly fluffy opening comments at Saturday's Aberdeen crackerbarrel, Rep. Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) took issue with Thursday's Aberdeen American News editorial, which declared that the South Dakota Legislature wastes time and money with some bills. Well, at least he acknowledges…
Posts published in February 2015
I've mentioned Rep. Dan Kaiser's (R-3/Aberdeen) House Bill 1134, which removes the loophole prosecutors can use to prevent the expungement of arrest records, which allows the state to continue persecuting innocent people they've wrongly arrested. At Saturday's crackerbarrel in Aberdeen,…
Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) told his Aberdeen crackerbarrel audience yesterday that the education task force proposed by Governor Dennis Daugaard will be very different from previous legislative summer studies that have dealt with school finance and teacher pay: Hmmm... how…
Senator Corey Brown wants to have a fight over initiative and referendum signature counts. Seeing that the people and press were outraged by his democracy-hating Senate Bill 166, the Senator from Gettysburg asked that his bill be tabled, but not…
Senator Corey Brown (R-23/Gettysburg) does not lose gracefully. His Senate Bill 166 was a spiteful and crassly political ploy to weaken voters' right to legislate via initiative and referendum. The press blasted him, a variety of citizens and groups rose…
Nancy Hilding of the Prairie Hills Audubon Society sends me this list of crackerbarrels happening around the state this month. Updated lists are available online from the South Dakota Camo Coalition, the South Dakota Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, and…
As I listen to the audio of today's marathon Senate State Affairs Committee hearing, I hear Chairman Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic) open discussion of the big transportation bill with this injunction: Every member of this committee is well aware of the…
Watertown Arrows fans didn't like us outsiders talking about the cultural misappropriation inherent in their homecoming activities. Now some Dakota students who attended Sisseton public schools but switched to Tiospa Zina to get away from racial prejudice are saying Sisseton's…