Yesterday Secretary of State Steve Barnett validated the hospital lobby’s Medicaid expansion initiative to appear on the November 8 general election ballot as Amendment D.…
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Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) has been a willing participant in the Republican war on initiatives. In 2016, he led the SDGOP campaign against Amendment V,…
A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…
Governor Kristi Noem’s lawsuit against Amendment A barely survived her own legal recklessness. First, her lackey law enforcement plaintiffs misfiled their challenge to the constitutionalization…
Even paying circulators $22 an hour couldn’t get South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws 16,961 signatures in four slim weeks on its Plan B petition…
South Dakota democracy still has a fighting chance in federal court. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann denied the state’s request that he stay his…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, another off-year election has voters picking Republicans over Democrats for a few elected offices. But get past personalities and party labels, and…
Dakotans for Health isn’t just fighting to expand Medicaid in South Dakota; they’re fighting for more democracy for everybody in our fair state. Recognizing the…
I don’t know if the delay came from marijuana advocates or our inattentive Attorney General, but supporters of Amendment A have let slip without action…
Merry Christmas! say Republican legislators to the League of Women Voters and other advocates petitioning for a vote on an independent redistricting commission. Republicans are…