Author: Kim Jarrett

(The Center Square) – South Dakota lawmakers agreed to a trio of bills dubbed a “Landowner Bill of Rights” that sponsors said would protect landowners from pipeline companies that wanted to build in the state. Senate Bill 201 would allow the South Dakota Public Service to supersede county and municipal zoning laws deemed “unreasonably restrictive.”…

(The Center Square) – The Iowa House of Representatives passed a bill that changes how the state’s Area Education Agencies are funded amid accusations from some lawmakers that the legislation is a “power grab” and unnecessary. AEAs oversee special education services in the state. In her Condition of the State address, Gov. Kim Reynolds said…