Those sneaky payday lenders! I spend a day incommunicado on another project, and they get their flunkies to file their challenge to Initiated Measure 21, the…
Month: January 2016
Senator Ried Holien (R-5/Watertown) is interested in reforming the petition process for ballot measures. Senate Bill 91 would add some information to the form that petition circulators are supposed…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs reminds campaigners of all stripes that their year-end campaign finance reports are due in her hands by Monday, February 1. Hop…
I would not wear Annette Bosworth’s Che Guevara shirt, but I would wear the shirt that Congresswoman Kristi Noem got from her sister for Christmas: I’d…
Holy cow! Rep. Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) beats Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Democrats to the punch and puts the first real teacher pay bill of the…
The South Dakota Legislature is considering a petition reform that could completely eliminate the petitioning process for candidates with money. Senate Bill 95, served up hot…
The Democratic plan to raise South Dakota teacher pay is superior to Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plan for three main reasons: The Democratic plan raises teacher pay…
Who’s keeping the books at scandal-plagued Mid-Central Educational Cooperative? Not Stephanie Hubers. Appointed October 8 as interim business manager, Hubers announced Sunday that she has resigned…
A cranky minority of legislators hate bicyclists. We saw an outbreak of two-wheeler-whacking during last year’s successful effort to write into law the passing berth motorists must give bicyclists. Now…
And now for a real moral battle in the South Dakota Legislature: Senator Arthur Rusch (R-17/Vermillion) has filed Senate Bill 94, his promised death penalty repeal. As a…