Turnout in local elections suggests democracy is losing to apathy: Rapid City school election: 33.6% [Update 12:25 CDT: Pennington County election supervisor Lori Severson tells me there…
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I stopped by the Brown County Courthouse a couple hours ago and voted in today’s Aberdeen Central school board election. I was voter #337 in the community. Mayor…
Why bother driving to Pierre for the Bosworth trial? You already know what the prosecution will say, what the defense will offer as distractions, and…
Rick Weiland is serious about defending democracy from Big Money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcnxe8Agp-8 This stone-faced video, like the “Pledge” video that accompanied the public launch of Weiland’s…
Want a double dose of democracy? Aberdeen’s League of Women Voters and the Chamber of Commerce are hosting a candidate forum this Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m. at…
“They don’t listen to what we have to say.” I heard a Republican veteran say that this week. He was talking about the Legislature that…
Friends, readers, citizens, lend me your signatures! I have two events where you registered voters can come sign the petitions I’ve taken out to refer the Legislature’s incumbency…
The petition drive to refer Senate Bill 69 and Senate Bill 177 continues with circulators across the state working events and going door to door…
Shantel Krebs sent me not one but two letters yesterday. I feel all tingly: The efforts to refer Senate Bill 69 (the petition “reform” bill that…
Thought you’d heard the last from Rick Weiland? Think again: Weiland, who carried the Democratic banner in last year’s U.S. Senate race, and Drey Samuelson, who…