If you’re looking for reliable coverage of ballot measures, don’t look to the Michell paper. Their Monday report on David Owen’s local presentation on pending…
Month: November 2017
Senator Jim Bolin presented the Initiative and Referendum Task Force’s mostly bad reforms to the Legislature’s Executive Board Monday. Speaker and E-Board chairman G. Mark Mickelson…
The South Dakota Legislature briefly considered a Scott Walker/Wisconsin-style ban on collective bargaining for public employees in 2012. That bill quickly failed. But our Republican…
We repeal your initiatives, ignore sexual harassment, and now we want you to raise our pay. Such is the pitch the Legislature’s Executive Board wants…
Amidst the flood of new proposals pooped out by the Legislature’s Executive Board yesterday is a plan to have lawmakers give a “State of the…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton took questions at yesterday’s Brown County Democratic Forum. What was on voters’ minds? Redistricting: Asked what impact holding the governor’s…
I heard another good speech by Senator Billie Sutton yesterday. Our Democratic candidate for governor told a capacity crowd (46, by my count) at the…
I wanted to talk positively about Meade superintendent Don Kirkegaard’s appointment as Melody Schopp’s replacement at the Department of Education. But various buzzing bees reminded…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…