Hat tip to David Newquist for irony of the week! Joop Bollen has made a living by coordinating government intrusions in the marketplace. For nearly twenty years, as director of the South Dakota International Business Institute under the Board of…
Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone City) gives Governor Dennis Daugaard one more good reason to accept the Affordable Care Act expansion of Medicaid: property tax relief! The Governor has applied for a waiver from the Federal Government to allow South…
House Agriculture and Natural Resources passed House Bill 1087 yesterday. This bill is Rep. Betty Olson's (R-28/Prairie City) latest attempt to kill conservation easements in South Dakota. Ostensibly, the bill only eliminates perpetual conservation easements by setting a thirty-year limit…
Mr. Wiken notes that Rick Perry is campaigning to make Washington "as inconsequential in your lives as I can." That, friends, is the Grover Norquist philosophy in a nutshell. Fill government with people who either don't believe we constitute governments…
Not satisfied with criminalizing enforcement of federal law, Rep. Lora Hubbel (R-11/Sioux Falls) decides she needs to take away some of your property rights. Hubbel has floated House Bill 1166, which says you can't sell your land to the federal…
Rep. Steve Hickey brings us the Statesman-Prepper bill of 2015. House Bill 1086 would create the Economic Contingencies Work Group to study how the state would respond to what Rep. Hickey has called the "Long Economic Winter." Gently revising a…
I'm scratching my head over a comment reported by Ken Santema from Saturday's crackerbarrel in Aberdeen. Evidently a citizen asked the legislators about a proposal to increase funding for K-12 education through a 1% tourism tax. From Santema's phrasing, it…
Larry Pressler's pipeline plan is already rolling. The Dakota Access oil pipeline would ship Bakken oil from North Dakota to Patokia, Illinois, refineries. Thirty inches wide and moving 450,000 barrels per day, Dakota Access would match the first Keystone pipeline…
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