The peanut gallery offers numerous nutty suggestions for the seat Commissioner Steve Kolbeck is abdicating on the Public Utilities Commission June 17. Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard gets to pick a replacement for the only Democrat in statewide elected office (besides…
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The Associated School Boards of South Dakota unload on the State Legislature with a new report on the sorry state of school funding in our fair state. Among the important points: Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson passed and celebrated a…
Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth) is trying to shape an alternative reality. The Senate Majority Leader got all exclamation-pointy yesterday about "his" amendment (oh, the privileges of rank) to HB 1110 to restore $12.2 million to K-12 education funding. He said…
I heard Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth) whining on Statehouse last night about losing economic development opportunities to other states. Yesterday, Senate State Affairs, of which Olson is vice-chair, discussed HB 1230, Governor Daugaard's permanent economic development fund. Senator Olson spoke…
And now for a textbook example of the straw man fallacy, we turn to Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson, District 8 Republican from Wentworth: With only three weeks until the end of the 2011 Legislative Session, I find myself looking…
Even though he insists he doesn't want to, even though he told my wife in an e-mail it won't happen, even though the people would rather he raised taxes (oh, but I keep forgetting, we're a republic, not a democracy),…
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…
In the interest of equal time, here's Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson, with this informative summary of Week 6 in the South Dakota State Legislature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aG1wZVrkis Oh, wait, did I say informative? Good grief, I've issued more farts with more…