The Legislative Research Council has posted its fiscal notes for Dakotans for Health’s proposed initiated law and constitutional amendment to expand Medicaid under the Affordable…
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Dakotans for Health is evidently taking my advice and gearing up to launch its petition drive to place Medicaid expansion on the 2022 ballot as…
Not helping democracy amidst pandemic is the United States Supreme Court. On Tuesday, or the fifth time this year, the high Court reversed a lower…
Wow—pretending to be Attorney General has made Jason Ravnsborg so tired that, presented with two potential ballot questions to expand Medicaid in South Dakota, he…
Coronavirus didn’t kill the payday-lending-cap petition in Nebraska. Petition sponsors submitted more than 120,000 signatures Thursday, well above the 85,200 required to make the November…
SD Dems exec Pam Cole says coronavirus killed Dems’ chances of getting a U.S. House candidate on the 2020 ballot: But, Cole said, the biggest…
Campaign finance reports are finally in from all ballot questions committees that circulated petitions in 2019. Let’s compare the successful petition drives with my own…
Economist and Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is winding up for a one-two counterpunch to the Republican war on initiative and referendum. This morning I…
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is doing the people’s work in Pierre. Yesterday he filed two bills, Senate Bill 102 and Senate Bill 112, to…
Our victory in SD Voice v. Noem II (and that’s not the editorial we—the judge’s ruling in my favor was a win for all South…