Bob Mercer’s report on the Legislative Executive Board’s meeting Monday contains a number of interesting nuggets. First, the Legislature’s Initiative and Referendum Task Force will be…
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Dakota War College reads FEC reports and gives favorable coverage to Dusty Johnson, who buys ads on DWC, and critical coverage to Shantel Krebs, who has…
Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…
The Aberdeen American News interviews local legislators— —oops! Wrong headline… Today’s front-pager has area Republicans signaling they want to revisit campaign finance, an issue on which they ran…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem joined her Republican majority yesterday in voting to take away more of our privacy and to allow Internet service providers to sell our data. Senators…
Get your latest Dakota Free Press podcast, right here, right now! The highlight of Episode 003 is Spencer Dobson’s interview with local art professor Sara Christensen Blair…
Initiated Measure 22 ran 70 sections, 15,388 words, but achieved all of its main campaign finance reforms (not counting Democracy Credits and the ethics commission)…
A West River neighbor reports receiving two robocalls from the Progressive Priorities PAC. My correspondent says the called played a quote from Barack Obama and…
While trying to sort out the chaos wrought by the Legislature’s repeal of Initiated Measure 22 and its subsequent multipronged tinkerings, I just discovered a…
Governor Dennis Daugaard cheers final passage yesterday of four bills relating to corruption: Today #SDLeg gave final passage to HB1052, HB1073, HB1076, and SB27 –…