Governor Noem Issues Proclamation for Special Session PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem issued a proclamation for a special session of the state legislature. The legislature will meet on Monday, October 5, 2020, with the purpose of considering legislation related to the use of federal stimulus relief funds, including the $1.25 billion allocated to South […]
It’s election season, but it seems that House Speaker Steve Haugaard’s focus seems less about his re-election campaign in District 10 and more about the concept of a days-long special session in the middle of October. Earlier this week, Governor Kristi Noem announced plans for a brief special legislative session on October 5 to approve […]
Governor Noem Announces Special Legislative Session PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that she will be calling a special session of the state legislature. The legislature will meet on Monday, October 5, 2020, with the purpose of considering legislation related to the use of federal stimulus relief funds, including the $1.25 billion allocated to South Dakota […]
Thank You to South Dakota’s Frontline Heroes By Sen. John Thune As the coronavirus pandemic spread from city to city and state to state throughout the country, heroes emerged in some unlikely forms. Delivery drivers helped keep our economy moving, literally. Grocery store workers risked their own health and safety to ensure shelves were stocked […]
Governor Noem Outlines Framework for $400 Million in CARES Act Funding for South Dakota Small Businesses PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem laid out a framework for up to $400 million in Coronavirus Relief Funds (CRF) to assist South Dakota’s small businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “South Dakota is in a good spot […]
The Brookings City Council met last night, and pushed through a slightly watered down ordinance to tell people what to do and how to behave, or else they would face sanctions. Mainly because they wanted to, and despite a fairly significant show of people telling them no. This comes a couple of weeks after Barry […]
Brookings residents minced few words last evening, during an emergency City Council last night in a room swarmed by hundreds of people who have had about enough of the mandates from City COVID proposals that had finally gone too far: Brookings city councilors voted Wednesday night to move forward conversation on adding a mask mandate […]
While South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is trying to chart a course to keep South Dakota businesses from going bankrupt during the coronavirus outbreak, the Brookings City Commission has proposed an ordinance which seems to be trying to do the opposite: As you might gather from the tenor of the above poster which is making […]
Thank You to South Dakota’s Frontline Heroes By Sen. John Thune As the coronavirus pandemic spread from city to city and state to state throughout the country, heroes emerged in some unlikely forms. Delivery drivers helped keep our economy moving, literally. Grocery store workers risked their own health and safety to ensure shelves were stocked […]
I hate to ask, but after seeing their latest triggered outrage, I have to openly wonder if the South Dakota Chapter of the ACLU is willfully ignorant? Yes, they have a number of people with higher educational degrees who spout off on may things. However, if you look at their most recent call to action, […]