Senate Bill 40 was on its way to expanding democracy, giving South Dakotans the chance to vote at primary on candidates for all statewide elected…
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In double-proof that no bill is ever really fully dead in Pierre, House Local Government yesterday dug up Senate Bill 82, a sensible poll-watcher regulation…
In Colorado the circulation period was six months, and the filing deadline was three months before the election. South Dakota’s circulation period is one year. In…
I’m having lots of fun ridiculing Governor Kristi Noem for being as ineffective as South Dakota Democrats in repealing our unusual and immoral sales tax…
Evidently stung by criticism of her failure to work hard enough to win approval of the food-tax repeal that she borrowed from Democrats, Governor Kristi…
A footnote on state misogyny: During yesterday’s Senate Health and Human Services hearing on House Bill 1053, Chairwoman Erin Tobin (R-21/Winner) questioned Representative Fred Deutsch…
The LRC appears to be saying that House Bill 1137, Representative Chris Karr’s (R-11/Sioux Falls) two-year reduction of the state sales tax from 4.5% to 4.2%,…
Legislators proposed eight constitutional amendments for the 2024 ballot this Session. We get to vote on just one. House members proposed four amendments via House…
Earlier this month, the Eighth Circuit erased South Dakota’s initiative petition deadlines and told South Dakota it can’t require citizens to submit signed initiative petitions…