Scott Odenbach

The state legislature has picked its new majority leadership, following Tuesday’s election. The incoming state legislature will be led by a faction of the Republican party galvanized by the carbon pipeline debate.

A bill designed to establish a grant program for healthy forests in the state fails to pass the House floor.

A bill to create a study committee to improve Native children’s lives was killed in the House of Representatives.

A bill to establish a Center for American Exceptionalism at Black Hills State University was killed twice in the House.

A professor at Black Hills State University is asking for $150,000 in state funding to create a Center for American Exceptionalism.

The House Local Government committee is advancing a bill that changes absentee voting procedure and shortens the early voting window. This comes despite opposition from those who run the state’s elections.