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…
Tag: initiative
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…
Rep. Don Haggar and Senator-Elect Jim Bolin repeat for that Sioux Falls paper the threat they made to AP back in November: they want to kill initiative…
I just heard Seth Tupper wonder aloud on Dakota Midday why we don’t delay the implementation of voter-approved ballot measures a little longer so state and local officials…
Just as we Democrats are getting good advice to focus on bread-and-butter economic issues in the 2018 election, some Republican decides to drag the culture…
History seems to mitigate against synergy between ballot measures and partisan candidates’ fortunes. Even when we led the nation in putting initiative and referendum into our state…
Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act, includes one potentially unconstitutional section. Scroll to the bottom and read Section 68: There is hereby appropriated from the…