Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) goes big… on petition font size. Following up on the threat he made in the Aberdeen paper several days ago, Senator…
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In 2016, Black Hawk conservative Nick Reid was one of an interesting ideological assortment of advocates for Amendment V, which would have replaced partisan primaries…
Two of my local legislators are firing the next shot in the South Dakota Republican Party’s war against initiative and referendum. Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen)…
For Christmas, Bob Mercer gives us the briefs filed by both the Attorney General’s office and South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws to rebuff the…
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals heard SD Voice and Cory Heidelberger v. Governor Kristi Noem, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, and Secretary of State Steve…
We may get another go at creating an independent redistricting commission in South Dakota. Leading a coalition of eighteen South Dakota groups, the League of…
By the way, as I analyze the newly posted draft amendment petition on redistricting (whose drafters, contrary to the SDGOP spin blog’s hyperventilations, are not violating…
The big players in health care in South Dakota have decided that they are ready to buck South Dakota’s one-party regime and help put Medicaid…
As the biggest petition nerd in South Dakota, I’m embarrassed not to have noticed sooner the third initiative proposal posted to the Secretary of State’s…
Governor Kristi Noem is using Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom and South Dakota Highway Patrol Colonel Rick Miller as plaintiff-pawns in a crazy ploy to…