Attorney General Marty Jackley sends this blog the titles of the five proposed ballot initiatives currently on his desk for review: An Act to provide for a limit…
Tag: initiative
In the Tea Leaves Department, Attorney General Marty Jackley may have given a hint of a ballot initiative coming to the petition trail at a Deadwood forum last…
Kids just can’t catch a break on the prairie. Nebraska is currently considering a youth minimum wage that almost exactly parallels the kid-exploiting, voter-disrespecting Senate Bill 177 passed…
“They don’t listen to what we have to say.” I heard a Republican veteran say that this week. He was talking about the Legislature that…
Yesterday we learned that Hot Springs activist Bob Newland and Sioux Falls antiquarian Andrew Ziegler have organized Consistent South Dakota, a ballot question committee formed with this mission: We intend to…
A liberal, two lobbyists, and Bob Newland walk into Shantel Krebs’s office…. In what promises to be great fun, Hot Springs photographer, Libertarian, and marijuana advocate Bob Newland…
Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey and politicoffee-maker Steve Hildebrand haven’t even started circulating their petition to place an interest-rate cap on the 2016 ballot, but the lending…
In my conversations about referring Senate Bill 69 and/or Senate Bill 177, numerous South Dakota neighbors have expressed the concern that crowding the ballot with lots…
The pending drive to cap interest rates in South Dakota and rein in predatory payday lenders gets some national press this week with a hefty article in The Atlantic. Sean McElwee’s…
Speaking of initiatives, the cannabis advocates hoping to put two marijuana initiatives on the 2016 ballot should look up Governor Peter Norbeck. First South Dakota governor born in Dakota…