Alan Greenblatt of Governing hasn’t forgotten our Legislature’s brazen repeal of Initiated Measure 22. Greenblatt includes South Dakota in a new essay listing states where democratic norms are under attack:…
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Governing notices the South Dakota Legislature’s attack on people power (see all the bills here), particularly the effort to repeal Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, with…
Updated 2017.02.25 18:00 CST In their rush to repeal Initiated Measure 22, “South Dakota Lawmakers Are Showing Populism Is a Lie” (so goes the Washington Post headline).…
Republicans expand their war on people power with Senate Bill 67, which would effectively double the number of signatures we citizens need to put constitutional amendments…
As the South Dakota Legislature collapses into the ethical chaos of a sex scandal, Republican leaders are fast-tracking the first bill in their attack voters’ right to legislate.…
Legislature, help me out. Every time I post about the Deep Borehole Field Test—you know, that nice little engineering project to try drilling perfectly straight three-mile…
Rep. Don Haggar and Senator-Elect Jim Bolin repeat for that Sioux Falls paper the threat they made to AP back in November: they want to kill initiative…
History seems to mitigate against synergy between ballot measures and partisan candidates’ fortunes. Even when we led the nation in putting initiative and referendum into our state…
The fact that Dusty Johnson is running for Congress is pretty cool. But even cooler is the likely reason that we know he’s running now: the swift enactment…
While Al Novstrup campaigns from inside a tin can, his party leaders are responding to Donald Trump’s winking threat to throw our democratic process into…