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…
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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…
Marijuana advocates may be figuring out that if they want to use the initiative process to create better marijuana laws, they have to engage more…
The Republican attack on South Dakotans’ right to make their own laws continues. After overturning voter-approved Amendment A on a stretched legal technicality, Governor Kristi…
Given Senator Steinhauer’s effort to coax the hospitals into withdrawing Amendment D, Dakotans for Health might want to keep circulating its Medicaid expansion initiative petition.…
When I took my deep drag yesterday morning on the Legislature’s big marijuana bong, I noted in passing that Representative Will Mortenson’s Republican friends (and…