Representative Jon Hansen has a really hard time selling his Amendment C with an honest argument. With just five days to go until everyone gets…
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John Fiksdal hates Amendment C, the latest Republican effort to put minority rule into South Dakota’s Constitution and make it harder for South Dakotans to…
Big-business opponents of democracy have failed to place on North Dakota’s ballot a measure that would have put a 60% vote threshold and a single-subject…
Marijuana advocate Bob Newland has written two columns—May 7 and May 10—on his petition drive to have Meade County vote on issuing more than one…
The Republican line on Amendment C has been that the Legislature has to muster a two-thirds vote to approve new taxes and special spending bills,…
This guest column comes from longtime marijuana-reform advocate Bob Newland of Hot Springs. With a record of having sponsored and managed seven failed statewide cannabis-related…
Dakotans for Health this afternoon submitted a petition with over 23,000 signatures to place on the November ballot an initiated measure to expand Medicaid in…
On Monday, Robert Peterson of Sioux Falls began circulating a municipal initiative petition seeking to put to a vote a proposal from his ballot question…
My radar pings sharply when Republicans suggest more revisions to initiative rules and procedures. Republican Representative Tim Goodwin (R-30/Sheridan Lake) tells KELO-TV that, considering the…
Marijuana advocates may be figuring out that if they want to use the initiative process to create better marijuana laws, they have to engage more…