Alas, anti-democratic forces in North Dakota are copying the bad ideas of South Dakota Republicans in an attempt to shackle the people’s power to initiate…
Tag: initiative
Black Hawk activist Nick Reid has received approval from the Secretary of State to circulate his petition for an initiated amendment to implement open primaries…
Or maybe the designation of “Plan B” should go to Mr. Payton Behrend, who beat the Marijuana Policy Project to the punch by two weeks…
With Amendment A still hung up in court, marijuana advocates are readying Plan B. Yesterday the folks who brought us Amendment A to constitutionalize marijuana…
The South Dakota Supreme Court is getting lazy. Instead of acting swiftly to review and rule on Amendment A, our Supremes are dragging their judicial…
Certain tribal leaders aren’t letting the inside baseball of competing ballot question committees and fiscal notes distract them from the big policy goal we all should…
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) doesn’t know jack about constitutional law, but at least he and his pal Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) know how to…
South Dakota’s hospital lobby is tweeting and its partners at The Fairness Project say they are working on expanding Medicaid in South Dakota, but the South…
A new poll from South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy shows just how out of step Senator Al Novstrup and his anti-democracy…
South Dakota makes the New York Times again, this time as part of the Republican Party’s nationwide effort to curb any and all voting rights that…