Once they recover from this week’s Special Sessions, legislators on the Government Operations and Audit Committee will reassemble on Monday, November 15 at 8 a.m.…
Category: South Dakota
The House and Senate have agreed on a compromise map, the Sparrow map we discussed in this morning’s post. Bob Mercer notes that the much…
Even paying circulators $22 an hour couldn’t get South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws 16,961 signatures in four slim weeks on its Plan B petition…
Launching a once-in-history impeachment proved easier than completing the once-a-decade drawing of Legislative districts. Negotiations and cartographic scribblings dragged on at the Capitol through a second…
Could Governor Kristi Noem’s whitewash–redo of K-12 social studies standards become a campaign issue in 2022? It could in the hands of a campaigner who…
South Dakota’s continued to rack up coronavirus deaths through October about as fast as it did a year ago, but our covid-recklessness appears to have…
South Dakota’s first impeachment rolled forward today, as the House, meeting in its second Special Session of this week, approved House Resolution 7001, which establishes…
Those of you who’d like to compare the House Grouse and Senate Blackbird redistricting maps can try reading the text of the two bills proposed…
Friends of a fair and independent redistricting process evidently failed to collect enough signatures by yesterday’s deadline to submit their petition for a constitutional amendment…
According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…