I was expecting Jenna Haggar, Steve Hickey, or Stace Nelson to set off my Legislative right-wingnut alarm first. However, Haggar and Hickey have kept pretty quiet (Hickey has yet to appear as prime sponsor of any bills), and Nelson is…
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Now the legislative hopper is popping. The South Dakota Legislature has a whack of fun new bills to consider: HB 1056 would open the last week of the year for fireworks sales. Now there's a bang-up revenue generator. HB 1059…
Speaking of puzzling positions on government-supported health care, Governor Daugaard signed a letter to President Obama with 32 other GOP governors and govs-elect asking the feds to let states cut enrollment in Medicaid. Interestingly, the governors aren't trying to save…
Or: Kristi Supports Government Takeover of Her Health Care Why am I not surprised? Rep. Kristi Noem demonstrates further hypocrisy and incoherence by accepting government-supported health insurance for herself and her family while trying to take away federal protections of…
As we wait for John Boehner and the GOP to decide it's o.k. to resume yelling about socialism and the "total destruction of our constitutional republic" that they must undo by repealing health insurance reform, the South Dakota Legislature faces…
Representative-Elect Kristi Noem will get her first chance to grandstand on her campaign promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act next week. Noem's GOP bosses will bring the "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" to a…
South Dakota's budget crunch is coming in part because of increased enrollment and costs in Medicaid. It's funny, then, that South Dakota is trying to block one way to fix that fiscal problem: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…