Charlie Hoffman

Your Sunday editorial concerning the dues voted on to join ALEC and your assumption that any legislator would rubber stamp and find approval for a piece of legislation stemming from one or two meetings with other American legislators is disconcerting....

South Dakota's Republican-controlled legislative Executive Board last week decided that each member of the Legislature should be a member of ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council.  That's $10,500 of your money: $100 membership each...

PIERRE — The Legislature’s Executive Board fully embraced the American Legislative Exchange Council for the first time Tuesday.  The Republican-dominated board decided the state treasury should pay for the $100, two-year memberships for...

Presiding officers  Speaker of the House is Brian Gosch, R-Rapid City. Senate president is Lt. Gov. Matt Michels. Senate president pro tem — aka No. 2 — is Corey Brown, R-Gettysburg.  Gosch and Michels generally run the House and Senate...

PIERRE — When it comes to clout, no other place has the power base that Rapid City, the Black Hills and the western ranch counties do in the 2013 session of the Legislature.  The speaker of the House is Republican Brian Gosch of Rapid City. The...

PIERRE -- The South Dakota Legislature is involved in numerous landowner rights and hunting-related bills, as well as grain elevator reporting in the wake of the Anderson Seed Co. sunflower fiasco that left farmers unpaid. State Sen. Shantel Krebs, R-...

 PIERRE — South Dakota voters won’t be asked after all whether to impose a higher standard for approving tax measures through the ballot box.  The Legislature fell two “yes” votes short Tuesday in the House of Representatives...

 PIERRE — The state House of Representatives voted 40-19 Monday afternoon to give final passage to creating a school sentinels program in South Dakota.  The legislation goes next to Gov. Dennis Daugaard. It would allow school boards to place armed...

 PIERRE — Legislators quarreled Monday about whether new taxes, tax increases and tax extensions should all require a two-thirds majority, whether enacted by the Legislature or through a ballot measure.  The state House of Representatives will...

PIERRE -- The battle is done for this year in the Legislature over public access to the water over private land that has been flooded. Landowners' lobbyist Mike Shaw and state Game, Fish and Parks Secretary Jeff Vonk sat side by side and pledged to a...

Editor's note: As part of the coverage of the 2013 legislative session, the American News will provide, on most days, a list of 10 pieces of information helpful to understanding what is — and sometimes isn’t — happening at the state...

Political campaigns could be prohibited from using anonymous robo-calls for or against election candidates and ballot measures in South Dakota under a proposal endorsed Wednesday by a state House of Representatives panel. Members of the State Affairs...