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…
We’ve seen numerous examples of how Jason Gant’s incompetence as Secretary of State cost this state in terms of electoral integrity and voting rights. Now…
My Canadian correspondent Barbara notes the surprising results of Tuesday’s provincial elections in Alberta. South Dakotans may want to take note for two reasons. First, as Salon eloquently…
Yesterday’s local elections put a little extra spring in my step. I told folks in Brookings that they should vote for my friend Scott Meyer, and they…
Hey, I think Rick Knobe’s with us on referring both SB 177 (the youth minimum wage) and SB 69 (the mutated petition reform bill). Knobe recognizes that…
I agree with Superintendent Mitchell that the Rapid City Area School’s proposed five-year, $6-million-per-year opt-out is necessary for maintaining Rapid City School programs. Three arch conservative…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has plenty of mess to clean up from her predecessor’s poor performance. The Lucy Burns Institute studied the accessibility of state election agencies in…
I’ve asked for just two vetoes from Governor Dennis Daugaard this session: first Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage; now Senate Bill 69, the main petition…
Dakota War College flunks again, misreading the law in his zeal to squash Independent challengers to his Republican patrons and thus misinforming the public. The…