The South Dakota Republican Party’ latest attack on direct democracy is House Bill 1200, which would impose a geographical quota on petition signatures to place…
Tag: geography
The South Dakota Education Association’s first glance at the Michigan/Hillsdale standards for South Dakota’s K-12 social studies curriculum indicated the same problem the American Historical…
How unpopular was Amendment C, the proposal to require a 60% supermajority for voters to enact initiatives or referred laws that raise taxes or spend…
Well-traveled New York Times graphics editors Gus Wezerek and Yaryna Serkez put together a fun quiz helping people figure out where they should live. Either I’m…
Five years ago when we officially removed the name of white colonial Indian massacre-er General William S. Harney from South Dakota’s highest peak and replaced it…
Bob Mercer reports that the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names has proposed naming a creek south of Pierre Arikara Creek, in recognition of the…
LRC finally posted the House State Affairs amendment to HB 1275, and I can report with some relief that, in addition to lowering the number…
In his overblown Republic-Not-A-Democracy™ testimony to House State Affairs for House Bill 1275 yesterday, Representative Steven Haugaard defended his unworkable Senate-district quota for ballot question…
Let’s kill initiative and referendum altogether! must have been what Rep. Steven Haugaard and Senator Al Novstrup meant when they prime-sponsored House Bill 1275, a…