How can I spend all this time talking about a super-bad public-institution-wrecking initiative and not cover the two super-good democracy-boosting initiatives that are worth your…
Tag: initiative
Mike Mueller, Julie Frye-Mueller, and Matt Smith have kicked off their petition drive to abolish property taxes and replace maybe only 58% of the lost…
The sponsors of the initiative to replace property taxes with a retail transaction tax moved quickly this weekend to keep their petition drive alive, and…
On Thursday, federal Judge Camela C. Theeler denied the state’s motion to stay her injunction against its unconstitutional February deadline for submitting initiative petitions. The…
LRC: Schools, Counties, Cities Will Lose $850 Million Taxing Retail Transactions Instead of Property
In their dog-and-pony slideshow presented to the Legislature’s property tax task force this summer, sponsors of a proposed initiated amendment to ban property taxes and…
In addition to obtaining the Attorney General’s title and explanation and the Legislative Research Council’s fiscal note, the sponsors of the proposed initiative to ban…
Wow! Thanks to the generous alacrity of Attorney General Marty Jackley, the rightwingers trying to abolish property tax still have a chance to get their…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has posted his draft explanation of the proposed initiated amendment to ban property taxes and replace them with a retail transaction…
Rick Knobe says he’s qualified but too old and too Sioux Falls to run for Governor: I’m from Sioux Falls. Nobody from Sioux Falls has…
Here, Spencer, take this mirror… In the January 17 House State Affairs hearing on 2025 House Joint Resolution 5003, now Amendment L on the 2026…