Noem Subverting Public Engagement with Push for New Marijuana Bill on Veto Day
Kristi Noem served in the Legislature for a couple of terms before running off to Washington to play Congress. Does she really not understand how the Legislature works? The Legislature runs from...
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Corn Palace Crowd and Website Functionality Fail to Meet Pillow Guy’s Hype
His pillow sales are down, so Minnesota radical Mike Lindell came to the Corn Palace yesterday to sell ideological cushions to the easily duped infomercial crowd. But as usual, right-wingers promise...
View ArticleLegislative Committees Taking Live Remote Testimony (and Documents!) via...
The South Dakota Legislature is participating in what we hope is a winter reflourishing of democracy by expanding opportunities for citizen participation in the Legislature. On Tuesday, the Legislative...
View ArticleHB 1054: Force Ballot Question Sponsors to Pay for Copies of Initiatives for...
For the biggest, meanest, most dangerous attack on initiative in South Dakota, turn to Representative Fred Deutsch’s House Bill 1054, which would price grassroots, volunteer ballot question drives out...
View ArticleSB 123: Require Public Comment on Attorney General’s Statements on Proposed...
Senator Michael Diedrich (R-34/Rapid City) proposes the first initiative-related bill of the 2021 Session I’ve seen that doesn’t attack the initiative process. Senate Bill 123 proposes to add a public...
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HB 1126: Tie Secretary of State’s Hands in Pandemic Response, Require Opt-In...
In response to valid concerns that crowded polling places could spread coronavirus, many states sensibly mailed absentee ballots to every voter. South Dakota Secretary of State Steve Barnett did like...
View ArticleSB 123 Gets Worse, Delays Initiative Petitioning Another 20 Days
Never underestimate the Legislature’s ability to take a mediocre bill and make it worse. Senate Bill 123 seeks to incorporate public comment into the process of composing the attorney general’s...
View ArticleNoem Subverting Public Engagement with Push for New Marijuana Bill on Veto Day
Kristi Noem served in the Legislature for a couple of terms before running off to Washington to play Congress. Does she really not understand how the Legislature works? The Legislature runs from...
View ArticleSpecial Session Must Restrict Action to Proclaimed Purposes for Sake of...
The Legislative Research Council’s draft Issue Memorandum on Special Sessions notes that we restrict the scope of a Special Session to ensure that the public knows and can guide what the Legislature is...
View ArticleDOE Taking Applications for Redo Social Studies Standards Commission Through...
The Department of Education indicated it would take nominations for the new K-12 social studies standards commission that Governor Kristi Noem hopes will produce standards more suited to her...
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Education Dept. Gets 150+ Applications for 46-Person Panel, Extends...
South Dakotans appear to be responding with enthusiasm to my urging that they sign up for the panel Governor Kristi Noem is wastefully summoning to redo our K-12 social studies curriculum standards....
View ArticlePUC Take Public Input on Carbon Dioxide Pipeline In Onida Today, Four More...
Today the Public Utilities Commission hosts the first of five public input meetings concerning Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposal to lay 469 miles of pipeline across East River to carry...
View ArticleJess Olson: Noem Canceled Special Session to Allow More Public Input and...
Democratic candidate for governor Jamie Smith says Governor Kristi Noem reneged on her promise to hold a Special Session to tighten abortion laws because she’s afraid of political blowback: “She...
View ArticleAmidst Vocal Opposition, Board Postpones Public Hearing on “Divisive...
The state Board of Education Standards was supposed to hold a public hearing Monday on proposed rule changes “to prohibit the adoption of content standards that promote inherently divisive concepts and...
View ArticleHillsdale Social Studies Standards Get First Public Hearing Monday, Sept 19,...
The first public hearing on the K-12 social studies standards campaign propaganda that a workgroup of South Dakota educators Hillsdale College professor emeritus William Morrisey has written for...
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Teachers’ Feedback on Hillsdale Standards: 10 Yea, 4 Meh, 230+ Nay.
Yesterday was the deadline for submitting written comment on the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Hillsdale K-12 social studies curriculum standards for consideration at Monday’s hearing before...
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CTE Standards Process Engages SD Teachers and Other Stakeholders, Produces...
The Board of Education Standards meets in Aberdeen today to hold its first of four public hearings on not one but two sets of proposed K-12 curriculum standards. In addition to the widely panned...
View ArticleFailure to Engage Stakeholders Leads to Continued Rejection of State’s Bad...
In another example of the Noem Administration’s failure to consult with stakeholders, the Legislature’s Rules Review Committee once again rejected the Department of Labor and Regulation’s proposal to...
View ArticleHillsdale Standards—Pro: Noem/GOP/Hillsdale Hacks; Con: Teachers
At Monday’s public hearing on the proposed K-12 social studies standards written by right-ring Hillsdale College, the Board of Education Standards allowed 90 minutes of public testimony from proponents...
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