Public radio is in for it today: Lori Walsh has invited me to talk about the People Power Petition Drive on In the Moment on South…
Tag: initiative
That Sioux Falls paper does some work to fulfill the media’s civic duty to inform voters about ballot measures by running a front-page story (plus two…
South Dakota Community Action—an impending ballot question committee based in Sioux Falls, not to be confused with our four regional Community Action agencies that support Head…
Somebody—not New Approach South Dakota—wants to write marijuana into South Dakota’s constitution. On May 30, the Legislative Research Council issued guidance and revisions for a…
I am a liberal Democrat. Bob Newland is a dedicated Libertarian. We thus disagree on many issues. Yet Newland and I agree on the value…
I offer my readers the following profound legal question about the absurd complications our Legislature is using to make citizen petitions unworkable: My petition circulators…
The SD Voice petition drives need you! We have six weeks to collect 25,000 signatures on the HB 1094 Referendum petition to stop the oppressive…
Adam St. Paul of Dakota Broadcasting had me on the radio yesterday to talk about Judge Charles Kornmann’s overturning of Initiated Measure 24, Mark Mickelson’s…
When Initiated Measure 24 passed last year, sponsor G. Mark Mickelson was full of confidence: “I think these guys are going to take their chips…
The Legislative Research Council finally got around to reviewing Melissa Mentele’s latest cannabis initiatives. The Emery advocate and leader of New Approach SD offers an…