Benjamin Case is a sociologist who studies politics and social change. He is a postdoctoral research scholar at Arizona State University’s Center for Work and…
Tag: initiative
Representative Jon Hansen has a really hard time selling his Amendment C with an honest argument. With just five days to go until everyone gets…
John Fiksdal hates Amendment C, the latest Republican effort to put minority rule into South Dakota’s Constitution and make it harder for South Dakotans to…
Big-business opponents of democracy have failed to place on North Dakota’s ballot a measure that would have put a 60% vote threshold and a single-subject…
Marijuana advocate Bob Newland has written two columns—May 7 and May 10—on his petition drive to have Meade County vote on issuing more than one…
The Republican line on Amendment C has been that the Legislature has to muster a two-thirds vote to approve new taxes and special spending bills,…
This guest column comes from longtime marijuana-reform advocate Bob Newland of Hot Springs. With a record of having sponsored and managed seven failed statewide cannabis-related…
Dakotans for Health this afternoon submitted a petition with over 23,000 signatures to place on the November ballot an initiated measure to expand Medicaid in…
On Monday, Robert Peterson of Sioux Falls began circulating a municipal initiative petition seeking to put to a vote a proposal from his ballot question…
My radar pings sharply when Republicans suggest more revisions to initiative rules and procedures. Republican Representative Tim Goodwin (R-30/Sheridan Lake) tells KELO-TV that, considering the…