How can you tell the difference between a shady petition circulator who’s up to no good and a real South Dakota circulator who’s trying to put an honest…
Dakota Free Press Posts
With lots of ballot measures coming up in the 2016 election (not to mention a possible local referendum on bonds for a new public library here…
The Health Care Solutions Coalition meets this week Wednesday (1 p.m. at the Pierre Ramkota). Their mission: figure out if South Dakota can finally expand Medicaid under…
Kurt Evans is out of the U.S. Senate campaign. In a comment to this blog on Sunday, Evans says simply that he’s calling off the Independent bid that he…
Steve Nemmers from Aberdeen takes to the Sunday paper to tell us that he agrees that gerrymandering is bad but that the Farmers Union proposal to fix…
Remember how House Majority Leader Rep. Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) said this week that South Dakota doesn’t need an ethics commission because the Legislature had thoroughly investigated the…
Who says the Dem brand won’t sell in South Dakota? Not New Angus, which is ready to reopen the notorious Northern Beef Packers slaughterhouse next month: A…
When invited last month to tour the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s pot-growing facility, District 8 Rep. Mathew Wollmann said he might have a schedule conflict but…
Rick Weiland and Don Frankenfeld get some TV time for their Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption initiative petition, currently circulating at a street corner near you. Hailey Higgins…
With the initiative petition deadline little more than three weeks away, Rick Weiland and Drey Samuelson send the following pitch for their “Nonpartisan Democracy Amendment,” a proposal that…