As the South Dakota Legislature collapses into the ethical chaos of a sex scandal, Republican leaders are fast-tracking the first bill in their attack voters’ right to legislate.…
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The South Dakota Republican Party begins this year’s attack on the people’s right to legislate at the ballot with Senate Bill 59, which includes two key provisions:…
The headline on Dan Peters’s interview with Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) is that the Majority Leader wants to delay the implementation date of voter-approved ballot measures…
We’ve seen the draft text of New Approach South Dakota’s proposed ballot initiatives for assisted suicide (taken from Washington State’s “Death with Dignity” Act) and…
Saturday brings two meetings for South Dakotans interested in people power. New Approach South Dakota and six other groups are hosting their meetings on their…
The Legislative Research Council didn’t beat Christmas, but they did manage to post the first fifteen bills of the 2017 Session before New Year’s! The first bill in the…
The folks who tried to place medical cannabis on this year’s ballot are gearing up for a petition drive to put two measures to a vote in…
Reading about the upcoming petition drive to place the Death with Dignity initiative on South Dakota’s 2018 ballot, a South Dakota ex-pat reminds me that Colorado…
In October I reported that New Approach South Dakota was planning to petition a “Death with Dignity” initiative onto our 2018 ballot. Last week Attorney…