South Dakota, the state that first enacted initiative and referendum, may be about to kill it. People keep asking me whether we should refer any…
Month: March 2018
Patrick Lalley and I “engaged in some energetic and entertaining conversation” on KSOO yesterday about the Legislature! Lalley also spoke with cyclist extraordinaire Michael Christensen about…
We can’t make a final count of candidates and primaries yet; the Secretary of State’s office still needs to process petitions that slid through her…
Does any state regret expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (you know, the signature legislation of President Barack Obama that, fourteen months later, Donald…
Since he’s not running for District 13 House again, G. Mark Mickelson will spend more of his time this summer and fall persuading us that…
I don’t know what the story is in District 33, but I’m sure there is one. Looking just at the Republican side of the ticket,…
I filed two candidate petitions at the Secretary of State’s office in Pierre yesterday, one for Brooks Briscoe, one for myself. Secretary of State Shantel…
Congresswoman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Kristi Noem is criticizing Citigroup, one of South Dakota’s biggest employers, for its decision not to finance certain gun-related businesses.…
Not backed by popular demand, Lora Hubbel says she won’t be on the Republican primary ballot: I did not get the cushion of signatures that…
Republican candidate for governor Marty Jackley issues a “Faith and Family Initiative.” Naturally, I am annoyed by this over-Godding. So should you be, if you’re…