Here’s the text of a letter to my Aberdeen neighbors that I’m hoping the Aberdeen paper will publish: From April through June, you saw me with…
Tag: initiative
Pat Powers’s response to the redistricting amendment about to hit the petition trail shows just how cheap his politics is. Instead of focusing on the merits…
The GOP spin machine is going to have to retool its snarky partisan attacks on Rick Weiland’s proposed anti-corruption ballot initiative. The wide-ranging South Dakota Government Accountability and…
[Disclosure: South Dakota Farmers Union will likely pay me to circulate the petition for the initiated constitutional amendment we’re about to discuss. I would respond to…
Saturday I reported that Lisa Furlong of North Sioux City has created a ballot question committee, South Dakotans for Fair Lending, whose stated mission sounds…
Steve Hildebrand helped Barack Obama win the Presidency in 2008. But he tells Kevin Woster that capping interest rates to check predatory lenders in South Dakota…
The Legislative Research Council has produced the fiscal impact statements required for Consistent South Dakota’s ballot initiatives to outlaw the transfer of tobacco and alcoholic…
The usury industry appears to be mobilizing more resources to fight the proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at 36% and box predatory payday lenders out…
We may have four 2016 ballot measures addressing South Dakota’s stance on marijuana. New Approach South Dakota is hustling for signatures on its medical cannabis initiative.…
A couple weeks ago, Erin Ageton, VP of title-lender Select Management Resources, sued to delay Steve Hildebrand’s and Steve Hickey’s proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at…