Two weeks ago, Republican gubernatorial candidate Marty Jackley released his “Hometown South Dakota Initiative,” a gussied-up endorsement of South Dakota’s economic development status quo. Now…
Month: March 2018
The Legislature’s passage of bills raising and indexing legislator pay starting next year prompted one of my Twitter friends to wag, “So collective bargaining does…
Somehow I manage not to get kicked off the radio. Patrick Lalley invited me on his KSOO program yesterday for another conversation about the South…
South Dakota democracy gets a bad review from a visitor from Venezuela. Bo Sistak, Democratic candidate for District 35 House, notices this letter to the…
Forget arming the teachers; why not just arm the kids? The South Dakota Legislature seems to think any child of any age may be responsible…
The Legislature has decided that its 2017 Special Session resolution of the nonmeandered waters issue is good enough for the foreseeable future. Of the eight bills…
Yesterday wasn’t all good for ballot measures in the Legislature. The Senate barely passed House Bill 1177, Rep. Drew Dennert’s part in the Republican push…
Advocates of ballot questions and free speech can thank Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) for bumbling his way into killing House Bill 1282, another attack on…
In more good news for ballot question fans, House Bill 1005 passed the Senate yesterday. HB 1005 passed in much better form than it appeared in…
Ballot question committees enjoyed some small victories yesterday in Pierre. First, ballot question committees have won the right to immortality. Senate Bill 128 repeals the burdensome…