What can we learn from yesterday’s public testimony before the Legislature’s Initiative and Referendum Task Force? Most interested parties think initiative and referendum is good…
Dakota Free Press Posts
I joined sixteen other South Dakotans who testified to the Legislature’s Initiative and Referendum Task Force yesterday. You can hear my comments at 74:00 in…
Amendment S, the crime victims bill of rights, may be unconstitutional… in Montana. The ACLU, counties, lawyers, and even a victims’ rights advocate are suing…
KELO TV reports that the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee is recruiting volunteers to welcome visitors to the big game in Minneapolis next February 4. The…
Sarah Caron earned herself a promotion—or perhaps a remotion?—from Watertown voters last night. Fired just three months ago from her position as assistant city engineer (salary…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson is proposing a second ballot initiative, this one to ban out-of-state financing of campaigns for and against ballot measures. Just like…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants us voters to decide whether to raise our wholesale tobacco tax to reduce tuition at our regionally uncompetitive…
Holy cow—Sam, Dems, pay attention. Ironworker Randy Bryce, who goes by the great Twitter handle IronStache, is running against Paul Ryan is Wisconsin for U.S.…
Indivisible Rapid City is responding to the rampant hatred of the religious/Republican right-wingnuts by hosting “Activist Training: How to Combat Islamophobia” this evening from 6:30…
Two months after executive director Suzanne Jones Pranger jumped ship to work for fellow Burke native Senator Billie Sutton’s campaign for governor, the South Dakota…