Eight independent candidates have stood up to give voters in five more districts choices in November. In District 8, Clint Hoyer of Winfred has entered…
Category: South Dakota
Referring a law to a public vote is interesting, not only because it tests whether a bill the Legislature passed really reflects the will of…
Independent candidate for U.S. Senate Brian Bengs has posted the best validity rate for petition signatures of any statewide candidate this election season. In her…
Referendum! Three Groups Launch Petition Drive to Stop SB 245 Sales-Tax Hike for Property Tax Breaks
Some voters really aren’t keen on paying for property tax relief by raising sales tax. Some voters are so unkeen on that regressive move that…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s wimpy Senate Bill 96 will give counties the option to impose a 0.5% sales tax to lower their property taxes. But counties…
Down at the bottom of a Center for American Progress report on the impact of last summer’s federal big ugly budget reconciliation bill on state…
Secretary of State Monae Johnson botches her job, breaks the law, and denies South Dakotans the full early-voting period to which they are legally entitled,…
2016 Amendment S, California tech billionaire Henry T. Nicholas‘s costly vanity project to enshrine his poor dead sister Marsy’s name into every state’s constitution, got…
We may not have to wait for a new Legislature and new Governor to start turning prisoners into preachers. Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa,…
Lest we get too excited about Dusty Johnson as South Dakota’s next Governor, former Demcoratic legislator Frank Kloucek of Scotland weighs in with an open…