The South Dakota House came to its senses Wednesday and refused to let the Senate dupe them into giving the Senate an extra privilege. After…
Tag: ballot questions
The Senate’s defeat of House Joint Resolution 5001 yesterday whittled down the possible ballot measures the 2026 Legislature will put on the general election ballot…
In 2024, opponents of carbon-capture pipelines referred a law favoring pipeline companies over property owners to a public vote and rode public outrage against the…
Republicans hate ballot measures. But last week 30 House Republicans contradicted themselves and voted for more local ballot measures. House Bill 1323 would give local…
The Senate approved Senate Joint Resolution 508 yesterday with one vote to spare. With his GOP mainstreamers and Democrats divided on nixing the Lieutenant Governor’s…
In his address to the Legislature two weeks ago, Governor Larry Rhoden told legislators he “would love it if” House Bill 1044, the Rural Health…
When citizens put constitutional amendments on the ballot, Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) gets all worried that voters will destroy rural residents’ rights. But now when…
One of the arguments Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) has made in his ongoing war against initiative and referendum is that he…
First a novel, now a paper in the South Dakota Law Review! My friend Reynold Nesiba emailed me back in January: “Of all of the…
First responders—firefighters and EMTs, the heroes Kristi Noem likes to have her picture taken with—say they’re voting to expand Medicaid in South Dakota. At an…