Another important bill headed for conference committee is Senate Bill 113, in which the Legislature attempts to replace the unconstitutional 12-month deadline for initiative petitions…
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LaMie Declines to Investigate Senators for Exercising Legislative Authority over Boobgate Misconduct
As expected, Hughes County state’s attorney Jessica LaMie isn’t going to look into allegations of misdoing by powerful Republicans… but this time, she has the…
Snow and Judge Roberto Lange have delayed the demolition of the incomplete and code-violating Sioux Falls mansion of online separator of fools and money Vitaliy…
Convicted grand thief Vitaliy “Vick” Strizheus and his wife Nataliya started building a 3,982-square-foot, four-bed, five-bath mansion on three lots at 6800 S. Westfield Trail…
You know how the Legislature needs to act immediately to re-establish the deadline for submitting initiative petitions, thanks to my win at the Eighth Circuit…
When I received the Eighth Circuit’s solid affirmation of my challenge to South Dakota’s unconstitutionally early 12-month deadline for submitting initiative petitions, I considered teasing…
I was talking with an acquaintance with a fair political background but no knowledge of South Dakota politics or my own political activity. I mentioned…
Unsuccessful Republican Senate candidate Joel Koskan was so eager to cop a plea to stay out of prison and off the sex offender registry for…
I was looking up the Hankins rape case because an eager reader noted that part of convicted rapist Nathan David Hankins’s unsuccessful appeal of his conviction…
The state has suffered another loss in court over its effort to quash South Dakotans’ right to initiative and referendum. Yesterday the Eighth Circuit upheld…