Spearfish shouldn’t need any new, massive project to attract visitors—it’s a beautiful town! But local developers Joe Jorgensen, Vic Uttke, Doug Hoff, Rick Furnish and Wayne Klein see…
Category: South Dakota
(I know, I know, I’ve been writing a lot the last couple days about our successful referendum petition drives. But now we have an election to win.)…
This spring bird flu cropped up at nine factory-poultry sites in South Dakota affecting 1.17 million chickens and turkeys. If you’d like to see chickens that did not get…
I love those rare moments when Republicans start connecting the dots of their own rhetoric. Consider this letter from Eureka retiree Cliff Berreth in this morning’s…
Jonathan Ellis writes up our successful referendum drives and gives more ink to quotes from the main opponent of one referendum than he does to anyone who wanted…
Karl Gehrke has invited me onto SDPB Radio’s Dakota Midday today to discuss our two successfully petition drives to place Referred Law 19 (incumbent protection plan) and Referred…
South Dakota Veterans for Veterans failed to gather enough signatures to refer House Bill 1179—South Dakota’s new, expanded definition of “veteran”—to a public vote. Unable to submit…
Two for two! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs just told me that her team has certified the petition to refer Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage,…
After a triumphant week for my fellow Lefties last week, the Supreme Court delivered a mixed bag in its final day of decisions yesterday. In victories…
SB 69 Referral Creates Timeline Snarl with SB 67: No Court Challenges for Some Nominating Petitions!
Our successful referral of Senate Bill 69—now Referred Law 19!—to a public vote creates the need for the Legislature to conduct some minor yet urgent statutory clean-up…