Let's start on a positive note: Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson is supporting education by backing Senate Bill 58, which would extend a 50% tuition break at tribal colleges to Native Americans serving in the South Dakota National Guard. Of…
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Congresswoman Noem, pay attention: your former colleagues in the South Dakota State Legislature are threatening your pocketbook. HB 1054 would jack up the penalty for failure to appear: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to increase the amount that the…
My favorite freshmen aren't just sitting on their hands and letting the party leadership tell them what to do: they're proposing bills! My own District 8 Rep. Patricia Stricherz has floated HB 1055, which tells employers they can't block employees…
If you don't like how the state budget turns out, you may at least be able to take your frustrations out on prairie dogs. Some of the same folks who brought you SB 55, the "Chase Wile E. on Your…
Jon Hunter and I agree: the South Dakota State legislature starts too early and too slowly. State law requires the governor to submit a budget to the Legislature by the first Tuesday after the first Monday of December. The state…
My own District 8 Senator Russell Olson still won't let me follow his Majority Leader Twitter feed. Fine. Poop on him. Who needs 140-character doses of GOP spin when I can get full blog interactivity from District 8's other Republican…
I read on Dakota War College that our Republican legislators are getting social media friendly. Hooray for online accessibility! DWC mentions my own State Senator, Majority Leader Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth), as a pretty regular Tweeter. Interested citizen that I am,…
Senator Maher and Representative Verchio bring us Senate Bill 55, which combines two great pastimes: snowmobiling and shooting coyotes! Even as our fair state faces a huge deficit and punishing cuts to K-12 education, there remains a pressing need to…