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…
Category: South Dakota
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…
Pam Cole left her job as executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party last month. But she didn’t leave campaigning for progress in South…
House Joint Resolution 5003, Representative Jon Hansen’s (R-25/Dell Rapids) nefarious effort to erode our initiative power by imposing a 60% vote threshold on any initiative…
Back in February, I noted that Speaker Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) sponsored House Bill 1221, which originally proposed putting state money behind Governor Kristi Noem’s dopey…
Just when I thought our Republican Legislature might be ready to show some moral fiber… Top South Dakota lawmakers announced a proposal on Tuesday to…
Who got covid checks? Kristi’s kin got covid checks! According to Open.SD.Gov, Racota Valley Ranch Partnership, the corporation that holds much of the Noem/Arnold family’s…
But am I just doing Kristi Noem’s dirty work by continuing to post and share the police interrogation videos she leaked to bury Jason Ravnsborg? South…