I just noticed this morning that the Secretary of State’s campaign finance reporting website has an option allowing curious citizens to search 2018 filings by…
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It turns out we don’t need Representative Jon Hansen’s House Bill 1094 to create a petition circulator registry. We already have one. On Wednesday, Secretary…
Prior to Senate State Affairs’ summary execution of Senator Reynold Nesiba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) Senate Bill 157, a real effort to improve civic engagement by removing unfair…
I sent my petition sample, circulator form, and sponsor’s affidavit to the Secretary of State yesterday to move my meta-initiative petition toward circulation: If you’re…
When Lee Schonebeck talks, people should listen…. It only took Representative Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) two weeks at the Speaker’s podium to get himself sued,…
In joining the unanimous Senate State Affairs vote to kill Senate Bill 7 last Monday, Senator Jordan Youngberg (R-8/Madison) made clear that he believes polling…
I keep hearing the newscasters on South Dakota Public Radio reciting a distressing phrase to describe some CAFO complications: Officials with the Department of Environment…
The United States Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Carpenter v. Murphy, in which a Native American on Oklahoma’s death row contends that he was convicted…
Attorney General Marty Jackley provided his explanation this week of the best potential ballot measure in the 2020 hopper yet, my petition reform proposal. Alas,…