Referring a law to a public vote is interesting, not only because it tests whether a bill the Legislature passed really reflects the will of…
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Independent candidate for U.S. Senate Brian Bengs has posted the best validity rate for petition signatures of any statewide candidate this election season. In her…
Referendum! Three Groups Launch Petition Drive to Stop SB 245 Sales-Tax Hike for Property Tax Breaks
Some voters really aren’t keen on paying for property tax relief by raising sales tax. Some voters are so unkeen on that regressive move that…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s wimpy Senate Bill 96 will give counties the option to impose a 0.5% sales tax to lower their property taxes. But counties…
Hey, farmers! War-flation on fertilizer got you feeling down? Elect Congresspeople and a President with a genuine, well-informed interest in economic self-sufficiency, and, according to…
Republicans like to squawk that high taxes make rich people move away. The evidence on that claim is dubious at best. But a new survey…
The corporate shills at the Farm Bureau aren’t sugar-coating the farm economy. According to its Fertilizer Availability Survey of over 5,700 farmers conducted April 3–11,…
Down at the bottom of a Center for American Progress report on the impact of last summer’s federal big ugly budget reconciliation bill on state…
Secretary of State Monae Johnson botches her job, breaks the law, and denies South Dakotans the full early-voting period to which they are legally entitled,…
It used to be that we couldn’t propose making gasoline more expensive to protect the environment because Americans wouldn’t sacrifice cheap gas for other policy…