I smell something funny in the fiscal impact statements on the marijuana-related ballot measures currently being petitioned around South Dakota. The Legislative Research Council has…
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South Dakota is not in the Top Ten for states relying on sin taxes. In FY 2014, we were #11: Rhode Island: 15.9% of state revenue…
The Legislative Research Council has produced the fiscal impact statements required for Consistent South Dakota’s ballot initiatives to outlaw the transfer of tobacco and alcoholic…
In response to the upsetting news that idolized Valley Springs firefighter Steven Ackerman died fighting a Brandon house fire last April with a 0.189 blood alcohol content, Governor Dennis Daugaard…
Valley Springs volunteer fireman Steve Ackerman died fighting a house fire on April 12, 2015. Thousands of friends, firefighters, and well-wishers attended his funeral. Citizens created a…
The South Dakota Supreme Court threw out a drug-and-alcohol conviction this week on an interesting search-and-seizure point. On the evening of October 1, 2013, an unnamed individual…
Two proposed ballot initiatives have cleared another hurdle to petition circulation. On Wednesday, Attorney General Marty Jackley published his explanations of the initiatives proposed by Bob Newland…
Yesterday we learned that Hot Springs activist Bob Newland and Sioux Falls antiquarian Andrew Ziegler have organized Consistent South Dakota, a ballot question committee formed with this mission: We intend to…
Marty, Marty, Marty—you and I could make better TV than this. South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley sits down with Jessica Shyba, a New York…