The South Dakota Senate Tuesday voted to make it just a little bit harder for parents to escape culpability when their underage kids crack open a case of Keystone with their buddies on the back forty or host a kegger…
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The Department of Transportation appears keenly interested in the happiness of tipsy passengers in South Dakota. Their proposed revision of aviation law would remove restrictions on open alcoholic beverage containers in airplanes. The DOT now wants to clarify similar privileges…
Feeling flighty, the Department of Transportation offers a second bill dealing with aircraft regulations. Unlike House Bill 1042, which merely reduces the penalties for late payment of a registration tax, House Bill 1043 is a whopper. In PDF, HB 1043…
Madville Times Legislative Proposals: MTB 101: Hemp MTB 102: Legislature MTB 103: Taxes MTB 104: Education MTB 105: Unicameral/Redistricting Here's #3 from reader suggestions for bills to send to the South Dakota Legislature. Your conversation addressed a number of taxation…
Put down the beer. Within ten minutes of posting on lawyer Tim Whalen's bold argument on behalf of his accused manslaughtering client that the 2012 Legislature repealed our DUI laws, an eager reader sends me a case in which the…
Bottoms up, South Dakota drivers! A Lake Andes attorney is arguing that the 2012 Legislature repealed our DUI laws. The statement sounds absurd. Fire up the Legislature's website, and you find Chapter 32-23 of South Dakota Codified Law, "Driving under…
Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer and Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman sat down yesterday to talk about exploitative alcohol sales at Whiteclay, just across the NE–SD border from the Pine Ridge Reservation. It didn't go well: According to accounts from…
Sin taxes are a tricky political issue. By taxing tobacco, alcohol, and other unhealthy activities, we pin our state spending on activities we ought to discourage. If a state relies heavily on sin taxes, should we criticize that state's leaders…