Representative Hansen News Today

The Brookings/Moody County Lincoln Day Dinner was this past weekend. It has been a few years sine I've gone, so I actually attended. I had a nice invitation to join a friends' table, and I didn't have COVID, or any out of town trips.. I think I missed two of those because of Florida one year,…

“As a parent, I want to be able to determine how my children are introduced and given sensitive material,” said Bruner.

1:47 House lawmakers want voters to decide whether to increase the vote threshold for ballot referendums that increase taxes or fees. It would increase that threshold from a simple majority… up to 60 percent.   Critics say it’s a thinly veiled attack on the ballot initiative by the legislature.   When legislators vote to spend money it has to be approved by a two-thirds majority of members. Republican Representative Jon Hansen, of Dell Rapids, says that approach has made South Dakota’...