Update 2019.05.04 23:05 CDT: The star in the title arises from my conversation with in-house legal scholar Bearcreekbat in the comment section below. While we…
Month: April 2019
A third term for Mayor Mike Levsen? Sure, says my neighbor Bethe Martian, who appreciates his vision of an Aberdeen that builds on inclusiveness: In…
The state isn’t just giving away varmint traps; it’s teaching people how to use them: Being involved in a recent series of trapper education courses…
The barf-word of the week is agvocacy, the new term being foisted on us by the “share our story” marketing machine of industrial agriculture. The term…
When a rookie legislator cranks out press releases about her one-woman statewide tour to study rural education and about her efforts to serve constituents with chatbots,…
If the Deadwood gambling or anyone else hits the streets with initiative petitions this year, I’m happy to share this guidance for circulating petitions, which…
The gambling interests in Deadwood have an initiated amendment in the hopper to legalize sports betting in Deadwood. They’ve had their Attorney General’s statement since…
The batch of road and bridge bids that the state Transportation Commission accepted in the first half of April came in 7.64% above estimates. The…
Maybe that’s why he was talking nice about Dakota Free Press last year…. In a motion filed Friday, general attorney Marty Jackley and his helper Allen…
Ballot question committee SD Voice and Aberdeen pro-democracy activist Cory Allen Heidelberger have filed their response to the state’s arguments in their lawsuit challenging the…