Senate Bill 143 was another attempt to end South Dakota’s exceptional and costly treatment of ingesting illegal drugs as a felony. Last month SB 143…
Month: March 2021
Longtime marijuana advocate and petitioner Emmett Reistroffer is trail-ballooning an initiative to give South Dakotans the ability to recall more elected officials. The only officials…
Maybe this event was in the works before Pam Cole’s job change, but the former Democratic Party exec may be out earning her money as…
Pat Powers provides an excellent example of spin by ellipsis as he takes a gratuitous swipe at the best darn university in South Dakota. Powers…
I haven’t had much to say about the Legislature’s Democratic caucus this Session, since there aren’t enough of them to make much difference on the…
While the South Dakota Legislature dithers about impeaching an Attorney General who killed a man and lied about it, the North Dakota Legislature expels one…
Senate Bill 77, the 14-point-font rule designed to crush initiative petitions, isn’t on its way to the Governor’s desk yet. The bill just needed concurrence…
Just yesterday, the A.G.’s statement for the independent redistricting initiative popped up on the Secretary of State’s website. The letter is dated and stamped received…
The Legislature got a little skittish about raising the salaries of sitting members of South Dakota’s Executive Branch. Thus, instead of offering Jason Ravnsborg the…
One more pillar of locally owned media has fallen. Jon Hunter has sold the Madison Daily Leader to Arizona-based Wick Communications. Hunter, the third and last…