Brain C. Liss said some silly things in his campaign for State House last year. Now Representative Liss (R-13/Sioux Falls) continues to demonstrate an odd grasp of reality. Yesterday the House Taxation Committee killed House Bill 1131, which would have…
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I find an oddity among the bills that have flooded the Legislative hopper this week. House Bill 1153 would prohibit South Dakota's Department of Education and Board of Education from developing or adopting any history standards promulgated by the Common…
Following is the text of a letter I have submitted for publication to the Madison Daily Leader. The hyperlinks, alas, will not appear in the MDL version. Dear readers, I welcome your comments below. I have read with interest the…
I am heartened to see a bipartisan team of legislators backing eminent domain reform in Pierre. House Bill 1177 would tighten the rules for private corporations trying to take South Dakotans' land for their use. The rules include requiring that…
I started the day criticizing Rep. Lora Hubbel for introducing not one but two really ill-informed pieces of legislation. Let me end the day by praising another Sioux Falls legislator, Senator Angie Buhl, for showing the kind of courage that…
B. Thomas Marking and 9-12ers, call Pierre! The Republican elites are trying to make it even harder for Independents to get on the ballot in South Dakota. As if having to gather twice as many signatures to qualify for the…
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…
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…