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Posts tagged as “Larry Rhoden”

Rhoden Beats Nelson to Trigger on GOP Senate Primary: Can He Win?

Chad Haber's plan to eyeball and cuss his wife Annette Bosworth's potential Senate rivals out of the race evidently didn't work. After chatting with Bosworth at his Union Center hacienda Friday, Republican State Senator Larry Rhoden says he's running for…

Bosworth Visits Rhoden, Kephart, Howie on Second West River Campaign Trip

Annette Bosworth is bad at skirting FEC law. Check out this calendar prepared by a paid Meaningful Medicine intern for Dr. Bosworth's campaign itinerary: Note first the heading: "Updated Senate Schedule." Then, as an after-thought, someone writes a little "Pre-"…

Rhoden Says Senate Decision Coming by July

My offer to endorse State Senator Larry Rhoden in the GOP Senate primary if he grows back his butt-kicking mustache stands. Senator Rhoden tells reporter Woster nothing of his whisker plans, but says he will decide on challenging M. Michael…

Rhoden Tries Again to Limit Conservation Easements to 30 Years

99-Year Pipeline Easements Still O.K. More legislative recycling: the Ag Land Assessment task force has put forward House Bill 1007, which seeks to limit conservation easements to thirty years. This bill follows up on a recommendation made last fall by…

CAH: Where’s the Evidence Merit Pay Will Work? Legislators: Um….

At the District 28 and 29 legislative crackerbarrel in Belle Fourche this afternoon, Senator Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union Center) said that South Dakota consistently ranks among the top five states in student test scores. That claim partly motivated my question to…

HB 1234: Governor Daugaard’s Merit Bonus Plan in Writing

Thar she blows! House Bill 1234 puts Governor Dennis Daugaard's really bad education reform ideas on paper for the South Dakota Legislature to debate and (please, please, please) kill. The details: $3980 bonus to every high school and middle school…

Summer Sales Tax Dies; Rhoden Says Republicans Should Ignore Popular Will

Principle? What principle? Senate State Affairs killed SB 174, the temporary extra-penny sales tax, at its Tuesday hearing. The best argument opposing senators could muster was the idea that we shouldn't resort to temporary solutions. Prime sponsor Senator Stanford Adelstein…