History seems to mitigate against synergy between ballot measures and partisan candidates’ fortunes. Even when we led the nation in putting initiative and referendum into our state…
Category: South Dakota
Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act, includes one potentially unconstitutional section. Scroll to the bottom and read Section 68: There is hereby appropriated from the…
I hear a lot more griping about Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act that took effect last week, from Republicans than from Democrats. Hmmm… I’m thinking if…
Senator-Elect Al Novstrup and I agree that video lottery is a terrible way to fund state operations. Novstrup said (at about 53:00 in our November 4 KSDN radio debate)…
Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post raises alarms about mainstream media going soft on our fascist President-Elect (“the normalization of an authoritarian leader”, says political writer Sarah Kendzior) to preserve their…
Hey, ammosexuals! Hey, Rep. diSanto! I know you enjoy modeling, but try modeling gun safety: you only put your finger on the trigger when you are going…
…Heidelberger Offers Thune Interim Plan to Soft-Land ACA Repeal The rise of Trump may have made Governor Dennis Daugaard throw in the towel on Medicaid…
Making the Internet rounds this week is an e-mail that, according to multiple sources, comes from Republican Dusty Johnson drumming up cash and word-of-mouth for his freshly announced U.S. House…
Pastor Steve Hickey contends that the Dakota Access Pipeline is not worth trashing state-tribal relations in South Dakota. In an op-ed this week, the former Republican legislator…
On October 28, Governor Dennis Daugaard issued a press release stating that his Blue Ribbon sales tax increase and new school funding formula has raised South…