On Inside KELOLand last night, Senator Scott Parsley (D-8/Madison) said that the Highway Needs and Financing Committee, of which he was a member, identified $240 million in road maintenance needs. The committee proposed tax increases to fund $101 million of…
Posts tagged as “state legislature”
If you think Kathy Tyler was naughty for taking the state job of Democratic House caucus secretary right after leaving her District 4 House seat (and Republicans certainly thought so), then what would you think of a sitting legislator taking…
The Student Federation, representing elected student governments from all of South Dakota's public universities, is seeing some success for the bills for which it lobbied during Higher Education Days last week. Senate Bill 91, funding for the Regental needs-based scholarship,…
During the Senate Judiciary hearing on Senate Bill 162 Thursday, Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) said he had patterned his plan to arm certain legislators to play security guard after the 2013 school gunslinger bill. Then-Rep. Greenfield thought it was a…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) made crystal clear what all the guns bills in South Dakota's Legislature are really about. The Pierre Senator opened his commentary on Senate Bill 162, the Capitol gunslinger bill, with this statement: I can see both…
Senator Greenfield Calls Trooper Political Lackey South Dakota Highway Patrol Major Dana Svendsen testified against Senate Bill 162 Thursday. That bill was Senator Brock Greenfield's (R-2/Clark) attempt to allow certain trained legislators to carry weapons in the South Dakota Capitol…
Looking to grill your legislators this weekend? Here are the Presidents' Day Weekend events from the crackerbarrels I listed last Friday. Most events are Saturday, but Redfield holds a special Monday afternoon event: Brandon, Saturday February 14th, 9:00 AM -…
The South Dakota Legislature has before it a bill declaring that personhood begins at conception. House Bill 1212 adds fifteen words to our child abuse statutes: For purposes of this section, a child conceived, but not born, is deemed a…