The Legislature passed nine new laws this year that weaken our right to vote on laws and constitutional amendments. We will have two chances in…
Dakota Free Press Posts
Billie Sutton isn’t getting a break from outside observers. Our Democratic candidate for Governor hasn’t budged in Governing‘s handicapping of the race. Last October, Louis Jacobson…
Some legislators this Session staged an unnecessary and unsuccessful freak-out about free speech on campus. I have a hard time believing that there is any…
The Legislature considered 37 bills with emergency clauses in the 2018 Session. 33 of those “emergency” bills reached the Governor’s desk and received his signature.…
Only four non-major-party candidates—one independent and three Libertarians—have filed petitions to run for Legislature. Independents have until April 24 to file their petitions, but thanks…
The Secretary of State’s updated candidate list shows that Democrats will have at least five House primaries and one Senate primary. Republicans will have eight…
South Dakota, the state that first enacted initiative and referendum, may be about to kill it. People keep asking me whether we should refer any…
Patrick Lalley and I “engaged in some energetic and entertaining conversation” on KSOO yesterday about the Legislature! Lalley also spoke with cyclist extraordinaire Michael Christensen about…
We can’t make a final count of candidates and primaries yet; the Secretary of State’s office still needs to process petitions that slid through her…
Does any state regret expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (you know, the signature legislation of President Barack Obama that, fourteen months later, Donald…